J_RaD - 2:58 pm on Jul 28, 2011 (gmt 0)

I assumed that a lot of this was from Bing's advertising campaigns?

yea they've been doing lots of product placement in TV / movies.

Data centers on the scale of Google and Bing to serve search are very expensive. Even so I don't understand a 2.6 billion dollar loss?

what about building NEW and expanding as well.