2004: Microsoft Dominates All SEs
 

Why hasn't MS bought up Teoma and/or Vivisimo and put its massive brand power behind a system that is as good or better than google at relevant search results?

Seems to me they would own the search engine space within a year...

Thoughts? Anecdotes? Insider Information?
Inquiring minds want to know.

MS is building their own SE to kill Google

I have no doubt they CAN do it, and I wouldn't be surprised if Gates is boiling over at his lack of dominance in that space, but when in the history of microsoft have they gone with a build over a buy approach?

They bought DOS, stole Windows, bought IE, etc...
Seems like they could buy teoma and rebrand it in 2 days. :2 cents:

It says Teoma is a AskJeeves.com company...

hey, use msn SE as an exit everytime u use one of the worlds most famous free hotmail service..

now thats some stupid traffic.

amazon.com works on a SE as well

MS dominating SEs is the least we need

they will become a much bigger player in the SE market over the next few years

M$ will definately move in on Google, probably this year already and dominate the SE market in 2005/2006

Yeah, I heard Google was in talks with Microsoft a few months ago.

Whatever Bill can't buy, he destroys.

Doesn't nightsurf dominate the hell out of msn search anyway?

Search engines come and go. Google does not have lock.

off the top of my head, ones you don't hear about any more.

AltaVista
hotbot
excite

webcrawler :Graucho

If they launch a real SE, will Webpower still have all adult terms via Nightsurf?