Why Did Government Santa Tracker, Norad, Ditch Google For Microsoft?

[Spartan]

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Microsoft got an official Christmas present from the big man himself. No, not Santa–Uncle Sam. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which has delightfully perpetuated the myth of a flying present-giver on Christmas Eve since the 1950′s by ‘tracking’ Santa, decided to ditch its 5-year-old partnership with Google Maps in favor of Bing. “Google supported NTS [NORAD Tracks Santa] from 2007-2011 and helped increase NTS program awareness across the globe; NORAD is grateful for the partnership and the resulting success. This year, NTS and Google mutually agreed to go in new directions,” an NORAD spokesman [url="http://searchengineland.com/this-year-norad-tracks-santa-with-microsoft-bing-not-google-142313"]told[/url] Search [url="http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/18/why-did-government-santa-tracker-norad-ditch-google-for-microsoft/#"]Engine Land[/url].

The abrupt change is a little perplexing, especially since Google eclipses Microsoft on most meaningful measures. Even after Apple’s disastrous iPhone 5 maps fiasco led the company to recommend alternative apps, such as Bing, Google still made worldwide headlines when it released the long-awaited maps app last year. Google-starved Apple users [url="https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JeffHuber/posts/CfXMJ76Nfwk"]downloaded[/url] the maps [url="http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/18/why-did-government-santa-tracker-norad-ditch-google-for-microsoft/#"]application[/url] 10 million times in just 48 hours (and who knows how many since then).

In the UK, Google Maps has a whopping 89% market share, compared to Bing’s 4%. “Watch out, Google: if last month’s search share loss carries on, then by February 2016 Microsoft’s Bing will have overtaken you,” wrote the Guardian, [url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/nov/06/google-bing-uk-search-share"]with[/url] a tongue-in-cheek graph that extrapolated Microsoft overtaking Google maps based Bing’s tiny 0.72% increase in market share in October.
NORAD’s official Santa tracker app has received 223 times more downloads on Google’s [url="http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/18/why-did-government-santa-tracker-norad-ditch-google-for-microsoft/#"]smartphone[/url] operating system, Android, than Windows Phone 8, [url="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/12/norad-tracks-santa-claus-christmas-night-google-maps-out/"]according[/url] to ABC News.
Google has significantly more resources devoted to a task that would seem to be very critical for Santa’s success,” [url="http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/189565/why-norad-will-use-bing-not-google-maps-to-track.html#axzz2FQajEzAB"]said[/url] Mike Blumenthal, founder of the blog, Understanding Google Places & Local Search.
I’ll leave the conspiracy theories–or rational explanations–up to our readers in the comments, because I’m stumped.

[peru_edaite_enti]

asalu idi emi chesenu??

[Spartan]

[quote name='CBZ' timestamp='1355859023' post='1302974675']
asalu idi emi chesenu??
[/quote]
Santa ye time lo ekkad ekkad tirgutado..adi track chestadi....jus a myth..

[peru_edaite_enti]

[quote name='ChittiNaidu' timestamp='1355859252' post='1302974700']
Santa ye time lo ekkad ekkad tirgutado..adi track chestadi....jus a myth..
[/quote]

mari chesede myth ainappudu ee service oodu cheste endi le... kavalitte maa yapple vadi maps vadamanu... gifts ee gifts u...

[bhargava_v]

[quote name='ChittiNaidu' timestamp='1355859252' post='1302974700']
Santa ye time lo ekkad ekkad tirgutado..adi track chestadi....jus a myth..
[/quote]

bore kotti ekkada mouse click chesthe akkada santa vachesinatta?