Microsoft Backtracks on "better than Google" claim

[engine]

First, Microsoft Europe chief Neil Holloway said at a conference that "in six months' time, we'll be more relevant in the U.S. marketplace than Google." Fighting words for sure, but two days later a backpedaling Holloway said that he meant to say that MSN's search will be better than the current industry standard.

[seattletimes.nwsource.com...]

According to the information, we'll be hearing further announcements on Tuesday.

[sugarrae]

LOL... Curious as to who they are looking at as the industry standard.

[drall]

"Then, Nielsen//NetRatings said MSN Search lost two points in market share from January 2005, compared with the previous year, and now holds about 11 percent of the pie. Google, by the way, gained 1 percent to a 48 percent stake."

Yup MSN is really on to something lol. I mean if they keep this growth growing who knows, I mean they could own 5% of the search market next year!

[crobb305]

Maybe they read this thread [webmasterworld.com] and realized 6 months is unrealistic or maybe they did searches for something useful and found all subdomain spam and went to Google to complete their search.

hehe :)