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Financial Incentives for Live Search Data

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the so-what-have-you-been-up-to-lately dept.

InfoWorldMike writes "In an apparent attempt to boost its disappointing Web search market share, Microsoft will give 'service or training credits' to companies that will share employees' Live Search usage data. The program is being tested with 'a select number of enterprise customers based on the number of Web search queries conducted by their employees via Live Search,' Microsoft said in a statement late on Thursday. The move prompts InfoWord's ed-in-chief to ask: Is Office Live Microsoft's gateway drug?"

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  1. Re:not gonna happen by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think it might - all those sysadmins with linux and bsd boxes squirreled away now have an excuse to create scripts to hammer microsoft's search engine - "Hey boss, linux is good - we're using it to earn the company credits."

    If they REALLY want to capitalize on it, they can hire a spyware programmer to help turn their desktops into a botnet cluster when the employees aren't using them.

  2. Make data collection and warehousing profitable by iminplaya · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and the government won't need to require it. Win-win...uh, for somebody...

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    What?