Financial Incentives for Live Search Data

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday March 16, 2007 @02:59PM 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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Meanwhile Google has your soul... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-16 17:00 · Score: -1, Troll

Google mines your data with their live-office ads ... all get excited. M$ tries to do the same thing, and it just shows again how evil they are. As much as I hate MS, at least they still have an office product you can 'obtain' for free and you can lock behind a firewall. If it weren't for openoffice and consorts I'd be getting seriously worried I'd have to go back to pen and memorization if I want to keep my data safe.