Comments on: Are Microsoft's search woes just branding issues?

That's the case the software maker puts forth in a Wall Street Journal item, but CNET News' Ina Fried wonders whether the issues go deeper than that.

[Angmarr]

I LOVE Google search BUT

i really wonder sometimes whether it really is good!
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/search-engine-market-share.aspx?qprid=4 how much of that is real useful searches!?

[eudefender]

Maybe the problem is that you have the closed brand Microsoft and now they reach for the "open" web. Of course you don't like that. But don't worry, Yahoo's website is worse.

[ASUKid]

haha i love that everyone railed me for my small poke at windows but had nothing to say about the matter at hand. Is it because we are all in agreeance that MS search is the oppisite of good??

"I have no doubt that with a big ad campaign, it can make any name recognizable. "

you might be right, but you half to see the comedy in that MS has to do a huge ad campaign to solve the branding problem they created trying to take on google, who to this day has not done one ad ever and it is globally known house hold name.

MS fails at things because it doesn't understand what it should not expand to and what it should expand into. why does a personal and enterprise software company need to be involved in organizing the webs content?

[tommyferrellhc08]

Live Search is more feature-rich search engine and better designed than Google's search.

I agree with Maccess, however, that the , results of Live Search can be very off sometimes. Also, it does have a very interesting tie to the inner-workings of the searcher's computer.

Google still has the leg-up in terms of simiplicity and the ability to link all of its products and services together (such as Google Desktop, Google Toolbar, Google Latitude, Google Talk, Gmail, Andrioid, Google Maps, GOOG-411, and of course, Google's Web Search).

Despite my fondness of Live Search, I am still a dedicated user of Google. :-)

tdgf