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December 22, 2005
Richard McManus on Ganging Up Against Google
Posted by Stowe Boyd
Richard posts about a report from Ian McAllister, a Microsoft program manager, that some other "Tier 1" Internet company wants to gang up with Microsoft to counter Google's growing dominance in search and advertising:
[from Ian's post]
He was essentially saying that his company would help Microsoft level the playing field with Google in search and advertising.
Richard wants to know who the company is. Yahoo and eBay are two companies that leap to mind, obviously. AOL is now in cahoots with Google, based on a $1B partnership. Who else might it be?
What about Interactive? They own dozens of leading services -- Ask Jeeves, Match.com, Ticketmaster, LendingTree -- and even though they spun out Expedia, they are formidable: 3rd quarter results were $1.4B, a 55% growth over last year.
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1. Greg on December 22, 2005 12:59 PM writes...
When I read Ian's post I immediately thought of Amazon. They've long made it clear they're more than an online bookstore...
Permalink to Comment2. Stowe Boyd on December 22, 2005 02:15 PM writes...
Greg -
Yes, and the recent moves to open up Alexa to counter Google's dominance in the search world would support that.
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