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In 2007, there was rampant turnover in the Microsoft Reside Search unit. It appears like 2008 is off to a comparable begin.Mike Nichols, Group System Manager for Live Lookup, has resigned and is shifting to work for Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships.(Mehdi “oversees strategic partnerships across the company’s personal services businesses, is responsible for large-scale mergers and acquisitions, and forges relationships with early-stage startups and venture capital firms,” according to his bio on the Microsoft corporate site. Mehdi took this job in August 2007; before that he was Microsoft;s Chief Advertising Strategist.)Nichols was responsible for the planning and design of the newly touted vertical areas that the Live Lookup team is targeting, including image lookup, video lookup and news lookup. According to Nichols; bio, he also was in charge of query suggestions for Reside Search.Nichols joined the Live Search team in late 2006, ten years into his Microsoft tour of duty. He has had involvement in Microsoft;s portal,Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2010, advertising, MSN services, Internet Explorer and Windows businesses.Update (with more details from Microsoft): Microsoft officials confirmed Nichols’ approach to depart the Reside Search engineering team on February 4, but said that his new responsibilities “will enable him to continue contributing to the Search team while taking on an expanded charter within the company;s online services business,” according to a spokeswoman. Nichols; replacement has yet to get named.Microsoft continues to struggle to make search-query-share headway. The latest data from market researchers shows Microsoft remaining stagnant,Office 2010 Pro Plus, if not losing,Microsoft Office 2007 Pro Plus, in overall query share compared to its competitors.In March 2007, Microsoft created a new Search and Advertising Group and appointed Dynamics ERP veteran Satya Nadella to run the new unit. As part of that move, Microsoft severed Live Search from the rest of its Windows Reside services, which remain under the domain of Senior Vice President Steven Sinofsky. That same month, Windows Live Platform VP Blake Irving resigned,Microsoft Office 2007 Standard, as did Chris Payne. the Corporate Vice President in charge of Windows Live Lookup. In November, Ken Moss, head of core search,Office 2010 Pro Key, left his post.What to make of all the recent resignations and reshufflings among the various Microsoft business units? Well, it is reorg season in Redmond. But on the Reside Lookup side of the house, it;s got to be tough to keep banging your head against the wall and making little or no headway in growing your market share….