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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Versus Wine (Bans Links)

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Microsoft France bans wine marketing  

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| Key words used to search for online wine sales sites, and promotional links 
| to them, have been banned from Microsoft’s French MSN website. 
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http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=MEDIA+AND+MARKETING-qqqs=mediaandmarketing-qqqid=33312-qqqx=1.asp


Recent:

Searching for document formats

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| I’m not sure there’s a concrete conclusion here though it is clear to me that 
| Microsoft Live Search has the least useful and relevant set of links about 
| ODF in the top ten beyond the Wikipedia entry. I find that odd. Perhaps they 
| just have a really quirky relevance algorithm.   
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2143


Is Microsoft tinkering with Live Search results?

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| Is Microsoft filtering out from its Live Search results those it 
| considers “undesirable” for the company? 
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1127


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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