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Tough Love For Microsoft Search
searchengineland.com - 12/31/2008
Tough Love For Microsoft Search
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Back in June, I spoke at Microsoft as part of a regular series for those involved with its webmaster tools group and anyone generally interested in search. My talk was called “Tough Love For Microsoft Search,” and I covered various reasons why I felt the company has generally failed to make ...

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Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk:  Tough Love For Microsoft Search, from Search Engine Land

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John Battelle's Searchblog:  Danny on Microsoft

Geek In Disguise:  Tough Talking On Microsoft Search

LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews:  2009: The Year Ahead – Live Search

fudzilla.com - 12/31/2008
Fudzilla: Microsoft getting ready to lay off 17% of staff
— fudzilla.com — Image Worldwide cutbacks The rumor that Microsoft was set to lay off people on January 15th, 2009 is no longer a rumor but a fact. Staff at Microsoft have been informed that the company is readying major layoffs to its worldwide operations and it's ... (more) Fudzilla: Microsoft getting ready to lay off 17% of staff

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msnbc.msn.com - 1/4/2009
Microsoft Readies Cost-Cuts; Though Massive Layoff Unlikely
— msnbc.msn.com — Rumors of Microsoft layoffs are unlikely according to CNBC's Jim Goldman (more) Microsoft Readies Cost-Cuts; Though Massive Layoff Unlikely

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Tough Love For Microsoft Search, from Search Engine Land
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land gave a talk at Microsoft, calling it Tough Love For Microsoft Search. Now he's blogged an adapted version, and it provides the best look I've seen Of Microsoft's problems in the search arena. Briefly, it has the wrong sort of commitment, and it may have the wrong view of search. The branding has been (and still is) all over the place, the products have been inconsistent, and too many executives have come and gone. And so on. ...

Roundup: Dell underperformance, Tesla’s tough times, FCC blues and more
VentureBeat — ... Maybe they need some free massages — Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan finally nails down why Microsoft can’t compete with Google in the search market. ...

Danny on Microsoft
John Battelle's Searchblog — The man makes some very good points.

Tough Talking On Microsoft Search
Geek In Disguise — Tough Love For Microsoft Search is an excellent and thorough blog post from Danny Sullivan that takes Microsoft to task on search. Unlike others, Danny offers some suggestions for what to do. I like two of them   Word of mouth and showing people our product by the hand Change the name to Microsoft Search - okay it’s not a verb but using microsoft.com make sense   What do I know though…search is a long way from my expertise but I enjoyed Danny’s insights and ...

2009: The Year Ahead – Live Search
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... About a week ago Danny Sullivan took Microsoft to task and called on them to get serious, really serious, about search.  Danny chided Microsoft for going in for the quick buck, without focusing on what really matters, which is to make search better.  In his piece, Danny quotes Bill Gates (and highlights some key phrases): ...

Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — ... , and to creating more value than it captures if it is to succeed. (Danny Sullivan wrote a great piece about the strategic relevance of this very idea just last week, Tough Love for Microsoft Search.) ...

More Tough Love: LiveSide interviews Danny Sullivan about Live Search
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... Danny has been vocal about Microsoft’s search efforts, and we talked about two recent posts of his - “Tough Love for Microsoft Search”, and “ ...

How vomit lady shows what's going wrong with Microsoft
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land put it really well a while back in a talk called Tough Love For Microsoft Search, when he argued that Microsoft's strategy in the search market isn't really a strategy at all - it's merely a desire to make money that has been dressed up. ...

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