On 2007-07-14, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> Bots Helped To Boost Microsoft Live Search Gains
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>| In a blog post, Compete analyst Steve Willis attributed Microsoft's
>| search gains to prizes awarded to users participating in Live Search
>| Club, which features games that post queries to Microsoft's search
>| engine.
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>| [...]
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>| Microsoft is essentially being DDoSed by thousands of people hundreds
>| of times per minute, but they are mistaking this rise in traffic for
>| people actually using Live Search."
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> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201001092
You could do similar with Firefox and the TrackMeNot extension. It does
random searches to whatever engines you pick at a select rate (I do one
per minute).
It's wasn't created to up the counts of anything. It was created to
stymie search engines' methods of creating profiles on people by making
it impossible to narrow down just what they're really searching for.
But there's no reason it couldn't be used to boost the numbers of one
engine over another.
Leave it to MS, though, to find a dishonest way of boosting their
numbers.
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