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Microsoft To Pay People To Search

Posted by samzenpus on from the have-some-of-our-extra-money dept.

kolicha writes "After the failed Yahoo bid, Microsoft is going to try a new approach to gain market share on their rivals Google. Sponsored links will be pay per purchase rather than pay per click, and search users will be offered 'cash back' on their purchases."

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  1. PLEASE READ! IT WAS ON 60 MINUTES!!! by Norwell+Bob · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anybody still getting that hoax email that claims that MS will pay you for every person you forward it to, and everybody they forward it to, etc etc? Funny, first time I got that hoax was at least 10 years ago, probably longer. I still get it from time to time. Now in light of this new development, I'm thinking maybe I should have forwarded it after all...

  2. Re:Nope, sorry. by ColdWetDog · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Wow. Who gave both the Microsoft fanbois mod points?

    What's Slashdot coming to anyway? Can't rag on Apple, can't rag on Microsoft. It seems that Xenu and Jack Thompson are the only safe whipping boys. Damn young'uns. Mess up everything.

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  3. what's redundant about parent post ? by unity100 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the idiot who used wasted his/her mod points on fanboi-modding down parent post, please take time to explain us, the /., why the hell did you waste your mod points to slight any opinion ?

    jerk ?

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