Google versus Competition - MSN

MSN:A distant third: Has spent more than $150 million on its new search engine project. But it's still work in progress
Hotmail is still the leader in webmail with some 33 per cent market share
MSN's reaction to Google Talk was to acquire in August 2005, a San Francisco-based VoIP company Teleo Inc. Post-acquisition, the recently released Windows Live Messenger integrates VoIP features
MSN has a similar pay-per-click advertising service called adCentre, but it's in beta stage. It's said to have nifty features like geo-targeting by country, down to specific cities, and even age and gender
MSN is said to be beta testing a similar advertising service
MSN Toolbar ranks third in the sweepstakes, but the advantage is that it's a worthy addition to Internet Explorer
MSN Spaces is a similar product, but is far below Google's Blogspot
Microsoft released the final version of its desktop search application only in May 2005
MSN does not have an offering in this space yet
MSN too has only maps and directions