According to the latest data from comScore, which are the most widely regarded by Wall Street, Bing has not lost market share in the U.S., as some recent reports had suggested.
The September report, which was released to clients today, shows small gains for the Microsoft search service and for Google, while Yahoo lost some share.
With more critics piling onto the just-say-no-to-Yahoogle bandwagon–questioning the controversial ad deal for Yahoo to outsource some of its search ads to Google–sources said some top Google execs are now hightailing it to Washington, D.C., to smooth over any regulatory feathers the company might have ruffled with its aggressive, damn-the-torpedoes approach to pushing the deal forward.
Meanwhile, Yahoo creates a don’t-worry-jack digital ad council.
So why is BoomTown still worried?
BoomTown is flatly fascinated by the rather incredible memo Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer penned to his troops yesterday, with news of the reorganization of its massive Platforms and Services Division and the departure of its president, Kevin Johnson.
In it, in a very rare public airing of its less-clean laundry, Ballmer actually named Microsoft’s two major rivals, Apple and Google, in a somewhat positive light, while still vowing to best them.
BoomTown had a lovely lunch yesterday with Jim Lanzone, former CEO of Ask, the little search engine that, well, tries, at least.
Lanzone had been at the company, which is owned by Barry Diller’s InteractiveCorp (IACI), for more than a half-dozen years, before stepping down in January in a management reshuffle at the company that put [...]
How’s this for a juicy quote?:
“I am beginning to think these people are insane. … Everything they cite is hogwash.”
That’s what is known as a classic Barry Diller, who can be relied on to come out with a good one when provoked.
In this case, the provocateur is Liberty Media’s John Malone (pictured on the right [...]
You’ve come a short way, baby–at least by the looks of the new television ad touting the recent redesign of Ask.com, the search engine that is too big to be in the other category and yet still not Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. And that’s a shame.
But being No. 5–unfortunately, in this case–requires some showmanship, if [...]
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