Originally Posted by Web Gazelle

No doubt Google is holding ground and is still king.

Originally Posted by seo auliya

I still think Microsoft will dupe a lot of non web savy people into using live search because of the vista integration of it. The more people who get vista and who use its default search, will inadvertantly be switching over from google(or whatever other search engine they prefer). Now keep in mind, im thinking of Non web savy people here, not the ones who actually understand URLs and typing them into the address bar But you'd be surprised how many people there are out there who would use a default live search, I can think of many!

Originally Posted by 3plains

I will agree with that 100%. A lot of people use the MSN search by default because they don't know any better. I have heard it time and time again, but as SEO's, we must adapt to consumers. Until MSN has the marketshare, they are not a major focal point.