Microsoft investing heavily in web search through research
Reuters | at | by Mike
Hmmmm, it is nice to have multi-billion research department...
Microsoft is "investing heavily" in Web search as an important and potentially lucrative market, Christopher Payne, the executive in charge of search, said on Thursday. "On the information side of the house, there's no question that search is the cornerstone of our strategy. We're investing heavily in this space," Payne said. He declined to say how much money or how many people Microsoft was investing in the project, however. Microsoft, the No. 1 software maker, earlier this year released its Web crawler, which collects the building blocks of information upon which Web search engines are built.
Without giving specifics, Payne said Microsoft's research department is devoting significant resources to the company's search project.