Techradar reports that a new report suggests that Microsoft is losing $1 billion a quarter on Bing, its search engine, with total losses so far reaching $5.5 billion

This is according to CNN Money, which has gotten its calculator out and totted up the total losses Microsoft has made on Bing and revealed that the company's online search division has never actually made a profit. According to CNN, since it started revealing the finances of the unit in 2007 it has made a total loss of $9 billion.People will expect more from searchThe losses are despite Microsoft gaining good ground in the search market. ComScore is tracking the search engine as having a 14.7 per cent share of the market, with Google at 64.8 per cent.

  Microsoft 'has lost $5.5 billion on Bing'