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Microsoft Kumo Likely To Be Unveiled Next Week

Posted 05/22/09 at 04:30:43 PM  by Andy Salisbury

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It’s expected that Microsoft’s search engine rebrand will soon make its official debut.

The official announcement for Kumo is expected to come at the D: All Things Digital Conference next week, where CEO Steve Ballmer is currently scheduled to appear onstage.

With the rebranding Microsoft hopes to gain a new foothold in the search engine market that they currently only have an 8.2 percent market share in. They’ve got some pretty stiff competition as well, considering that Google’s search engine market share is a whopping 64.2 percent.

 

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TAGS: microsoft, Google, search engine, Kumo
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avatarWhy?

Submitted by MacimumPC on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 9:06pm

Microsoft can't compete in this arena. I'm not even sure why they have this service. Just cut your losses and move on, MS. It has next to no market share and nobody in the history of search engines has ever said, "yeah, I read it online...just Windows Live-it". Microsoft is like Apple in terms of search engine market share...that is to say that they're at the bottom, but there's plenty of room to grow and gain market share. The difference is that while nobody used Windows Live (and I'm gonna predict that nobody will use Kumo, either), Apple is successful (whether you like it or not). Try something else, MS.

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avatarAll i use is

Submitted by MeTo on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 8:28pm

All i use is Google search and that is all thats needed for me. I am tired of everybody trying to get you to use there search feature.

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avatarI have never used live

Submitted by comptech08 on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 2:01pm

I have never used live search, and i prolly never going to use kumo.

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