Promotion aids rise in Microsoft search queries
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft's share of U.S. Internet search queries rose nearly 3 percentage points in June, according to data from ComScore Networks -- giving the company a rare bright spot in an area where it has struggled to compete with Google and Yahoo.
However, Microsoft acknowledged that much of the increase from May to June came not from traditional users but from people lured by prizes to an unusual promotional site that the company launched to get more people conducting queries through its Live Search service.