Microsoft’s top Vole in Europe, Neil Holloway claimed that the Vole is ready to take on Google on search has been dismissed as hype by Redmond.
Holloway said last week that in six months’ time Microsoft will be more relevant in the US marketplace than Google.
It was not as if he could have been misquoted, he was in a room full of journalists at a conference sponsored by Reuters. It would mean that MSN would have to go from getting 11 percent of all search queries in January, and get Google’s 48 percent market share, which seems nearly impossible at the moment.
However, a SpokesVole was back-peddling fast by the weekend.
Ken Moss, the general manager of Web Search, on the company’s internal search bog, said that although the outfit was going great guns at the moment he wasn’t making great predictions yet.
“This is a long-term game and we are committed to helping drive the next wave of innovation in search for our customers,” he wrote.
In other words, Holloway has been taking Steve Ballmer’s pills again.
