____/ Mark Kent on Monday 12 November 2007 15:04 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Microsoft looks to lure search users with prizes
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| As part of an ongoing effort to chip away at Google Inc.'s dominance of the
>>| Internet search market, Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday began a new push to
>>| lure users to its own service with the promise of prizes such as T-shirts
>>| and video games.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/microsoft-begins-new-push-compensate/story.aspx?guid=%7B57D712C9%2D80C4%2D46CE%2D859D%2DA4EFE98FB87A%7D&siteid=yhoof
>> http://tinyurl.com/2uuk7w
>>
>> Search engines are usually free. Microsoft's search is so bad that Microsoft
>> needs to **pay** people just to use it (more examples below). Didn't it
>> bribe Nigerians to beat Free software (Mandriva)? Selling something at
>> negative prices ought to be illegal, especially when you are a deep-pocketed
>> convicted monopoly abuser.
>>
>
> It would appear that Microsoft is just no longer cool. At all. Google
> is cool (whether you like them or not). Facebook is cool. 2ndlife is
> cool. Apple is cool.
>
> Coolth is hard to get, but trying to purchase it directly never seems to
> work.
Microsoft is a bully. Nobody likes a bully. It's also very corrupt.
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