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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.
|
| [...]
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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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