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Ballmer: One day, Bing will actually make money

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 6 comments
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Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has insisted that one day, the company's Google-battling Bing search engine will actually make money. "Search is going to be an ever-growing share of Microsoft's profits," the big man bellowed - literally bellowed - during a wide-ranging question and answer keynote this morning at the search-obsessed SMX West conference in Silicon Valley. "First, we've got to get to break even. And then we're got to get to profitability. And then we've got to grow share. That's how I do my math."

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Comments (6)

softwarejanitor ·
Bang Bing in the Bung until it goes Bong!

Besides Boycotting Bing what more can we do to make sure Microsoft never makes a penny of profit on Bing?
Bob_Robertson ·
Balmer the Underpants Gnome:

1) Do something badly that someone else does really well

2) ??

3) Profit!
cr ·
2) Squeeze out that someone, using Monopoly money to buy market share and legal indulgence
chofhead ·
The only way Microsoft will make a profit from Bing is if they buy Google and make Bing the only search whatever available and then it will take them 1000 years.
flufferbeer ·
@softwarejanitor, Right on.... Ballmer said: One day, Bing will actually make money. Bing Bang Bongers should now say: One day, Ballmer will actually be gone! -fb
cr ·
Quoting:Bing Bang Bongers should now say: One day, Ballmer will actually be gone!


And then they could be a lot more rapacious. The longer Microsoft is hoist on their own retard, the safer for us, I say.

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