____/ Tom Shelton on Saturday 01 December 2007 19:27 : \____
> On Dec 1, 12:00 pm, Anonymous <nob...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Microsoft's Live-Search marketshare is based on erroneous statistics since
>> everytime Internet Explorer can't find an URL it automatically starts a
>> search on Live-Search. I therefore urge marketeers to research the QUALITY
>> of Microsoft Search engine searches, as I have a hunch 90% of them are
>> simply bogus searches.
>>
>
> Only if that's your default search provider. Mine is google, so
> whenever IE can't find a url on my system, it searches google.
>
> --
> Tom Shelton
You might think that I'm kidding here, but IIRC, by one metric, Live/MSN has a
market share of only 2-3%. I can find the reference if you want.
Meanwhile, however, my log have becoming messed up. For those who do not know,
some Webmasters are screaming because arrogant Microsoft has decided to SPAM
the Web.
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
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/
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~~ Best of wishes
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http://iuron.com - proposing a non-profit search engine
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