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Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Sued In India For Ads On Infant Gender Selection
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| Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have been showing search ads in India that
| promote pre-natal sex selection in violation of Indian law, a public interest
| lawsuit charges.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/search/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210004228
Google CEO Tells Jim Cramer “I never worry about Microsoft”
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| Just days after we suggested that Google should perhaps hire financial guru
| Jim Cramer, who should turn up on Cramer’s Mad Money show? None other than
| the Google CEO Eric Schmidt!
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| [...]
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| # “I never worry about Microsoft,” Schmidt said in wrapping up his thoughts.
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http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/08/google-ceo-tells-jim-cramer-i-never-worry-about-microsoft.html
18-month beatdown: Google search crushing Microsoft, Yahoo
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| Despite bribing users to give Live Search a try and seeing Ballmer proclaim
| that Redmond is now all about advertisers, advertisers, advertisers,
| Microsoft has seen its search market share fall over the past 18 months
| according to three of the four major metrics companies tracking search
| traffic. No surprise: Yahoo is seeing a similar decline.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080813-18-month-beatdown-google-search-crushing-microsoft-yahoo.html
Recent:
Google Gets 70% of U.S. Searches
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| But Google's gain led to lower numbers for other search companies. Yahoo Inc.
| received 19.62% of U.S. searches in June, down from 21.31% last year, while
| MSN Search received 5.46%, down from 9.85% in June 2007.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148649/google_gets_70_of_us_searches.html
Microsoft's new tack: Bribery as a business model
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| But truth be told, it's not the worst idea. What's the harm in giving it a
| shot? In a recession--or whatever you want to call the current economic
| malaise in the United States--consumers are open to bribes (oh, I forgot:
| rebates). So why not see if this strikes the people's fancy? But this is only
| a holding action. The reason more people use Google's search is the user
| experience. It works better, so they keep returning. Microsoft CEO Steve
| Ballmer knows this.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10787_3-9949286-60.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Is Microsoft spamming websites to boost its numbers?
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| Microsoft claims that it's all part of a quality control effort, but a rising
| number of web masters is complaining that Microsoft is trying to inflate its
| Live.com traffic delivery by spamming websites.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9984574-16.html
Related:
Microsoft funding bankrupt Live Search experiment with porn spam
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| Dear reader, please tell me: what do you think of a search engine that steals
| (bandwidth and AdSense revenue), lies, spams away, and is not clever enough
| to stop their criminal activities when they’re caught?
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| Recently a Live Search rep whined in an interview because so many robots.txt
| files out there block their crawler...
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http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/microsoft-live-search-the-downfall-of-a-tiny-search-engine/
Microsoft’s Club Live fiasco
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| People were using the macro on more than 3 games at a time, on more than 2
| accounts at a time, why Microsoft didn’t pick up on the fact that in the
| first few days some people had accumulated enough for 3 Zunes each is beyond
| us. Some were lucky, others, not so much.
|
| [...]
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| So far no one has been banned from using their accounts, which they needed to
| sign up, probably because they did not break any laws, or probably because
| Microsoft didn’t want that hassle and liked their new found traffic.
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http://www.blogthe.net/2007/07/16/microsofts-club-live-fiasco/
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
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