DM News: MSN Eyes Google's Search Crown

Yusuf Mehdi

A smack-talking Microsoft vice president gave faint praise to Google at an investors conference, calling the search giant an admirable one-trick pony. MSN vice president Yusuf Mehdi said that once Google started expanding into related markets, it would find the going much harder as it got further from its core competency. Mehdi said that Microsoft was the one company positioned to bring its operating system to bear on search, creating an all-in-one program in an upcoming operating system release that would leave little room for dalliances with third parties.