Windows Live Search goes online on Facebook later this year. Is that right?
Mark Zuckerberg: Yes. It will integrate web search and will also have content from Facebook. FAZ: Will that be a boost for your revenue? Mark Zuckerberg: We don’t work very much on search ads now. FAZ: When will you expand this product to other countries like Germany? Mark Zuckerberg: The US is a good place to start. But if it works well that is absolutely what we can do in the rest of the world. FAZ: The market share of Microsoft in the German search market is 1 or 2 percent. They would be thankful for any help. Mark Zuckerberg: Yes, but we can consider to work with someone else in other countries. FAZ: StudiVZ, the market leader in Germany, has 10 million users, the RTL-company wer-kennt-wen 3.5 million. How will Facebook close the gap? Mark Zuckerberg: Right now we have 1.2 million users in Germany. In a lot of different countries like the United Kingdom and Australia or in Latin America we found that many people switched over to Facebook very quickly. In the UK and Australia a lot
