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Here are a couple of simple facts: Microsofts online services business lost $466 million during the last financial quarter,Facebook Beach Party Stalled By Police_8221, and most research firms put Googles share of the search market at least 45 percentage points above Yahoos. Still, Microsoft believes Bing can be competitive and profitable.Yusuf Mehdi,louboutins clearance sale, the senior vice president of Microsofts online audience business,christian louboutin flats, talked to Reuters yesterday, and expressed a mixture of confidence and optimism on several fronts. Much of that stemmed from his faith in a certain not-quite-cemented partnership."As soon as we close and implement the Yahoo deal, we have achieved a milestone: for advertisers, we are a credible No. 2,Wikipedia Results Good or Bad for Google News-_113," Mehdi said.Later, Mehdi continued,christian louboutin outlet, "Theres no question we intend to make a profit. . . . Clearly theres a huge return in the search marketplace that can more than make up the investments weve put in to this point."Bing (and perhaps Yahoo) fans should be happy to hear all this. It doesnt sound like Microsofts set its sights unrealistically high (note the "No. 2" comment), and at the same time, the company sees a way to make money off whats generally been a losing proposition to date.Now,high end shoes, of course, Microsoft and Yahoo just need to get regulators to approve their deal.Related Articles:> Microsoft Reports Great Quarter, Credits Windows 7> Bing Now Offering More Finance Information> Bing Might Replace Google As iPhone Search Engine