Comcast Signals Unhappiness With Google from the Wall Street Journal reports that Comcast is in talks with Microsoft to see if they would give them a larger piece of the search revenue pie than Google currently does.
Comcast, “one of the biggest non-Google sources of search queries handled by Google,” is expected to earn $70 million this year from Google but reportedly feels it should be making at least $100 million.
In addition to the monetary issues, Comcast feels “Google could do more to boost the number of searches from Comcast.net.”
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Is this just the big ones getting smarter (and tougher) in negotiating their distribution/monetization deals by fueling competition among the search engines or are we seeing the first sign of Microsoft becoming serious competition?