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____/ Phil Da Lick! on Wednesday 01 October 2008 18:02 : \____
> nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> <Quote>
>> Microsoft continues to expand on its cash for search programs. Its
>> latest edition is the Search Perks incentive, which joins Live Search
>> Club, Search and Give, and Live Search Cashback promotions in recent
>> months. Microsoft is getting a little trickier with its latest effort
>> -- you not only have to use Microsoft's Live Search, but you also have
>> to use its Internet Explorer Browser which is bad news for Firefox
>> stalwarts.
>> </Quote>
>>
>>
http://www.dailytech.com/Microsoft+Pays+for+Searching+Til+April+2009+Firefox+Users+Not+Welcome/article13100.htm
>>
>
> They can shove their money where the sun don't shine.
Some people already block their SE/spiders for abuse (not just for being a
bandwidth sink because only bots come and not actual users).
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
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.
|
| [...]
|
| 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.
|
| [...]
|
| 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
Also:
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
Aggressive is part of the business model. Microsoft attaway!
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