New Delhi, Feb. 23 -- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in a recent interview revealed that his company completely missed out on leveraging the popularity of 'search' on the web, saying that he had learned a lesson in that after Google capitalised on it.

Reflecting on past tech shifts, the rise of artificial intelligence and how companies must explore the changes to stay ahead, Nadella admitted that Microsoft had missed the "biggest business model on web". He acknowledged that the company did not see it coming.

"We missed what turned out to be the biggest business model on the web, because we all assumed the web is going to be all about being distributed. Who would have thought that search would be the biggest winner in organising the web," h...