Bing Loses More Money As Microsoft Chases Google

angry tapir writes "Microsoft posted strong results for the third quarter of its 2010 fiscal year, largely thanks to sales of Windows 7. But the company continues to suffer heavy losses in its Online Services Division [warning: obnoxious interstitial] as it tries to match Google in the online search and advertising market. ... The division's quarterly loss grew by 73 percent to $713 million, compared to a loss of $411 million during the same period last year."

sure we lose money on every deal...

[haus]

... but we make it up in volume!

Because...

[cosm]

the Bing results page feel like one of those typosquatter's "featured" results.

They should stick to what they're best at

[DumbparameciuM]

Which is....ummmm.......

Can I get back to you?

Luckily...

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Bing is a decision engine, so they should be able to decide when to pull the plug...

The way I see it

[DumbparameciuM]

The main problem with Bing is that you can't really use the world as a verb like you can with Google. Think about it - you can't say you're going to "bing" something, it just sounds gross.

Re:Because...

[Tablizer]

Unless Bing starts behaving like Apple and delivering what I don't even know I want yet, I don't see it heading much anywhere.

iFind: Apple tells you what you want instead of what you think you want to find.
   

Re:Competing Isn't Cheap

[Thing 1]

Anybody that challenges the Steve Ballmer ideology is driven from the company.

No shit, he said, forgetting to post anonymously.

Re:bing is a silly name

[Tablizer]

maybe they should have started by not naming there search engine something stupid like Bing!

They should have named it "Poly". Then we could access it with Mono API's: Mono + Poly = ....
   

Re:Competing Isn't Cheap

[fahrbot-bot]

I know of people who actually enjoy using Microsoft's online services.

Some people enjoy Colonoscopies [wikipedia.org] too.
I'm just sayin'...

Re:not just online services

[jerkmark]

Such as ? Who would make a hardware product without XP support and instantly lose all that market ?

Apple.