Microsoft's Answer to Google Base

douglips writes "Today Information Week is reporting on a forthcoming service from Microsoft intended to compete with Google Base. Instead of the freewheeling anything-goes nature of Google Base, the Microsoft project code named 'Fremont' will focus solely on classified ads. It will also allow restricting items to various audiences such as social networks or domain names. At this point, though, it appears to be a beta restricted to Microsofties." From the article: "In building Freemont, Wiseman and his five-person crew tried to make it both personal for people who only want to trade among family, friends and colleagues, while also providing the option of a public posting. Classifieds is a growing piece of the booming online advertising market that's expected to reach $13.8 billion by 2007, surpassing advertising spent on magazines, according to JupiterResearch. During that timeframe, spending on display ads and online classifieds together are expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 25 percent. "

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FD

[BushCheney08]

First Dupe!

Here comes the chaos.

[Bushido Hacks]

Last week Google said they would not allow porn sites to use their Google Base, which just about everyone, including the major porn webmasters, agreed was fair enought. But those few lousy jerks and some bogus sites whined about it citing that "they would get any business". These are the people that we DON'T want to have any business because they load computers with spyware, adware, and spam.

Here's probably what really went down. Not willing to accept defeat, they tell their sob story to Micro$oft. Money, and perhaps some bodily fluids, were transacted. MS will probably deny there affiliation or that they --ahem--"oral contract" ever took place. Microsoft gets computers tapped, the bogus porn sites screw with our computers and tell their friends in the spam business. Everyone's general security is undermined.

When will these guys understand that no means no?