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Ballmer: Google is winning online

Dr Watson paging Sherlock... Steve "on the" Ballmer is telling anyone who'll listen about how Microsoft is taking a pasting from Google in the search advertising racket.… ...full story at the register (uk)

from the register (uk) on Fri, Oct 12 2007

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