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The Importance Of A Competitive Search Market

(Posted on  TechCrunch  about 1 month ago)

Is Microsoft’s vision to compete in search and reinvent itself as an advertising company nothing more than an attempt to get back into its familiar position as Top Gun? Should Microsoft, Google and everyone else just give up on search and out… (visit source article)
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