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Microsoft shifts its search to AOL
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| "To remain competitive in online advertising Microsoft needs to quickly
| expand its footprint on the internet. But there is a limited number of large
| internet companies or operations to buy."
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http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/business/Microsoft-shifts---its.4306016.jp
At the moment, Microsoft does two things out of desperation:
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| 1. It pays (bribes) users of its search engine just to attract some people to
| spy on and give the illusion of gains.
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| 2. It spams Web sites. Here, for example, is a complaint from yesterday:
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| What's Up With One-Word Search Hits?
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| It's always like this. Like some bot was going through a dictionary file and
| visiting every hit returned from each word. It's almost never in groups like
| this, usually only one or two at a time. I'm not even on the first page for
| these words. These are the only kinds of hits I get from search.live.com, and
| every other search engine comes in with normal searches, never with a single
| word (unless it's a very uncommon word).
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http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=what_s_up_with_one_word_search_hits&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Still Not Sold On Citi Or Microsoft
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| The Microsoft Office division numbers were a disappointment. Operating
| earnings there only grew a disappointing 12% for the period. The company's
| online division posted an increase in revenue to $838 million from $677
| million a year ago. However, losses for that division doubled to $488 million
| from $210 million, as management spent heavily on data centers and new
| employees to ramp up ad sales.
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http://www.forbes.com/finance/2008/07/18/microsoft-mattel-citigroup-pf-ii-in_pr_0718soapbox_inl.html
Recent:
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?
|
| 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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| 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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