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Microsoft’s continued OS dominance and its quick recovery in the “browser
wars” did not repeat itself in the search-engine market, where
Microsoft’s search engine, Live Search, trailed well behind those of Google
Inc., the new industry giant, and Yahoo! Inc., the durable Internet portal site.
Microsoft hoped to change the market dynamics with the release in 2009
of Bing, a “decision engine” designed to display more retrieved information in
search pages than was typical, thus enabling better-informed decisions
concerning what links to follow or, in some cases, displaying enough
information to satisfy the original query.
Competition with Google
Microsoft’s continued OS dominance and its quick recovery in the “browser
wars” did not repeat itself in the search-engine market, where
Microsoft’s search engine, Live Search, trailed well behind those of Google
Inc., the new industry giant, and Yahoo! Inc., the durable Internet portal site.
Microsoft hoped to change the market dynamics with the release in 2009
of Bing, a “decision engine” designed to display more retrieved information in
search pages than was typical, thus enabling better-informed decisions
concerning what links to follow or, in some cases, displaying enough
information to satisfy the original query.