Microsoft Workers Prefer Google

A story just released by the Inquirer shows that 80% of incoming search requests from Microsoft’s domain arrived via Google’s search engine. In contrast, 64% of Yahoo! staff and 100% of Google staff use their own company’s search engine. How’s that for a product endorsement? I’d guess that Microsoft may soon add google.com to the list of blocked URL’s on their intranet.

This is no surprise, at all. It would not be odd to see MS block the Google domain from internal use though. Ballmer once noted in an interview that he doesn’t even allow his own children to use Google, so we know the stance on this one.