by Greg Sterling Yesterday Microsoft announced earnings. Though the company had  $13.65 billion in revenue, it saw its first YoY revenue decline since becoming a public company. The bruising headline is: Microsoft Profit Falls for First Time in 23 Years. Below are two charts of interest, the first showing division revenues and the second focused [...]

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In a bit of irony, Microsoft-owned Avenue A/Razorfish’s search VP Matt Greitzer said that the recently announced Google-Yahoo paid search pact “is going to be good news for advertisers.” Greitzer subsequently qualified (or might have been asked to qualify) his early enthusiasm for the deal by suggesting that it could result in higher prices for [...]

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Nielsen Mobile is reporting that Google leads rivals Yahoo and Microsoft in mobile search by margins comparable to those on the desktop. Click to continue reading…

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Microsoft has experimentally introduced “SearchTogether,” which allows people to use a browser plug-in (IE7 only) to literally collaborate on search. You need a Windows Live ID and Messenger but you can apparently use any search engine you like. Here’s a tutorial and some screens. Click to continue reading…

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Compete makes it a quadfecta! No real surprise, the latest search engine share statsout from Compete show Google has hit a new high — just as did previous stats out this month fromHitwise,Nielsen andcomScore. Plus, an interesting look at how much search traffic Microsoft’s Live Search Club generates. NOTE: ON THE PIE CHART ABOVE, AOL’S [...]

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