With Microsoft mum, analysts mull next moves for Live Search

May 8, 2008 By JESSICA MINTZ, AP Technology Writer With Microsoft mum, analysts mull next moves for Live Search (AP)

In this Nov. 7, 2007 file photo, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer reacts during Tech.Ed, a technology conference, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Without the influx of Web traffic Microsoft bet would quickly follow a Yahoo buyout, the software maker is facing a long slog if it wants to turn its money-losing online services business into a Google-killer. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

(AP) -- Without the influx of Web traffic that Microsoft bet would quickly follow a Yahoo buyout, the software maker is facing a long slog if it wants to turn its money-losing online services business into a Google-killer.

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