Microsoft Lost Search War By Ignoring the Long Tail 267
Art3x writes "When developing search engine technology, Microsoft focused on returning good results for popular queries but ignored the minor ones. 'It turned out the long tail was much more important,' said Bing's Yusuf Mehdi. 'One-third of queries that show up on Bing, it's the first time we've ever seen that query.' Yet the long tail is what makes most of Google's money. Microsoft is so far behind now that they won't crush Google, but they hope to live side by side, with Bing specializing in transactions like plane tickets, said Bing Director Stefan Weitz."
Re:frits psot? (Score:2, Funny)
Nope, I'm sorry but you didn't get the frist post. On the other hand you did get the first post! Congratulations!
Now be a good boy and go back to the main page to wait for the next article so you can try and be the first one to post something again.
Re:Well, duh... (Score:2, Funny)
Microsoft, doing business by ignoring its own users for the last three decades!
Sure (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft is so far behind now that they won't crush Google, but they hope to live side by side...
The same way the Zune lives side by side with the iPod.
Re:Same old (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well, duh... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well, duh... (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe I'm being dense but... why? Those seem like very reasonable top searches for a search engine that something like Windows uses by default.
Re:Same old (Score:3, Funny)
You're right. It's the new Microsoft company slogan.
Re:Bing sucks (Score:3, Funny)
I should have spent my keystrokes showing my contempt for others, I suppose that belongs at slashdot more than my anecdote.
FINALLY, someone gets it!
Oh wait, was that sarcasm? ;)