Microsoft is trying get a grasp in search business real hard. Their Live.com search engine is not getting much volume of search so far.

If you been looking at the recent tech news I am sure you have heard of these:

1. Yahoo rejected the Microsoft buyout offer.
2. Google rejected the search collaboration with Yahoo in fear of lawsuit.
3. Yahoo CEO Jerry Wang out.
4. Yahoo gets new CEO who got really no experience in search business.

Lets take a look at the December 2008 search volume for Google, Yahoo, Live:

Google 5,421,943,000    62.9% of total online searches
Yahoo 1,448,140,000    16.8% of total online searches
MSN/ Live 841,457,000        9.8% of total online searches

If we do the math here Yahoo+MSN/Live search volume comes to 26.6%. I think its just matter of time Microsoft would get Yahoo Search, unless something weird happen. This will give Microsoft enough fuel to propel a business war against Google.

All those past events lead me to only one prediction; Microsoft gonna be big in Online Search soon. And when that happens its gonna be really challenging for Google save their dominance. As a webmaster I am looking forward to see this, we really need another major search engines besides Google.