Just because it can’t solve security problems with its Internet browser doesn’t mean Microsoft can’t work on its own search engine, which the software kings are expected to unveil November 11, according to several reports.
Microsoft spent several years licensing Yahoo search technology and watching its search market share fall “slowly but steadily,” as one report put it, adding the current search market situation may not look as encouraging as Microsoft might think.
Google still has almost half that market and Yahoo almost a quarter, but they’ve also spent years developing top flight technologies and highly loyal user bases, according to information technology security news site eBCVG.
The Associated Press said the Microsoft search engine preview wasn’t likely to include technology to let people search their own desktops as well as the Web, a technology Google already has, but Microsoft is believed to be preparing desktop search to release by the end of the year.
Microsoft otherwise is not saying what will be part of its coming search engine and isn’t expected to reveal those parts until the actual unveiling.
“Microsoft is apparently seeking to take advantage of its practically unchallenged dominance at the PC operating system market once again as it did a decade ago with Internet Explorer,” eBCVG said. “This rather mediocre piece of software by itself gained huge market share after becoming integral part of mighty Windows suite.”
