Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Faces Competition Scrutiny
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| Microsoft's audacious $44.6bn bid for Yahoo! could fall foul of European
| competition law, according to a leading competition consultancy.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=6D714A80-16E9-4F25-94B0-B87519A3F182
With Yahoo, Microsoft faces antitrust fight once again
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| Microsoft's proposed $44.6 billion purchase of Yahoo could subject the
| software giant to the kind of critical antitrust scrutiny from Washington it
| hasn't experienced in nearly a decade.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9862973-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Congress to examine Microsoft-Yahoo plans on Feb. 8
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| There's nothing like a proposed multibillion-dollar melding of two
| high-profile corporations to perk up politicos on Capitol Hill.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9863125-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
In a sense, Microsoft is insulting itself by acknowledging that its Web efforts
are a total disaster, which they are because Microsoft loses $billions in the
area. Microsoft Office (and the corruptions around OOXML) is what keeps
Microsoft afloat, plus the dividends and buybacks (savings).
Related:
Google US Web search share jumps to 58.5 pct
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| Yahoo sites had 22.9 percent of the U.S. market, a 0.8 percentage-point fall
| from September. Microsoft slipped to 9.7 percent from 10.3 percent, Ask was
| flat at 4.7 percent and Time Warner's network dipped 0.1 percentage point to
| 4.2 percent.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN2121132720071121
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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| [...]
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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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| 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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