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[News] [Rival] Microsoft is Still Spamming the World Wide Web

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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

And Microsoft **still** wonder why people dislike it.


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.   
|
| [...]
| 
| 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
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