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I wonder how much longer the big losses at Bing will be allowed to continue.

The Yearly growth in Google's revenue this quarter alone is almost equal to the entire annual revenue of Microsoft's online division.

Google is growing at 25-30+% while MS online grew 14% in the spring quarter.

And it costs MS about two dollars to generate a dollar of revenue online.

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It's possible that MS is prepared to spend money in "inefficient" ways if that means that they're preventing money going into their competitors' pockets.

Well is Google is making more money, then Microsoft should be making more money as well, since people are spending more on online advertising. This is not stopping anytime soon, so why would Microsoft give up just as they are starting to make some gains (albeit by buying Yahoo search).

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