The first caption in the US Business section of the Wall Street Journal this morning is an announcement of Microsoft's first official search engine. The service will be publicly available starting tomorrow. There is a lot of speculation as to how this release will affect Google's business. I personally feel that there will be strong initial customer loyalty to Google ... but this won't last. I feel as if Google must start to offer more features through their site in order to retain their customer base. I don't think they need to go over the deep end like Yahoo!, but adding features like finance, weather, travel, etc. may help. I also feel like now is just about a good a time as any to release G-Mail to steal some of Microsoft's thunder.
Here is a link to there WSJ artile (must have a subsription to read).
This may be a fun link to watch in the coming days as well. Keep an eye on Google's stock. You may notice the sharp decline early this morning. The stock traded faily well all day, however, the poor close may be a sign of things to come.
I think this is definately something to follow for the months and years to come.
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