Microsoft To Pay People To Search

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."

Comments

DO IT! DO IT! Do It 'til You're SATISFIED...

[davidsyes]

Sounds more like "thrash-back" instead of "cash-back". I hope Yahoo!'s board and investors breathe a collective sigh of relief that they have a new magic bullet to fend of Murdoch and msoft. What bullet? Offer the shoppers the same "benefit" that ms is seemingly thrashing about with. It's is analogous to the paper rebates in many respects.

Ha! So, now, once again, msoft is showing it is POOR at innovating. Yet ANOTHER reason Yahoo! needs to vigorously resist this attempted shotgun rape, umm, wedding. And, resistance can be in the form of further open-sourcing or threatening more open-sourcing to keep msoft and it's wealthy minion mouth-pieces at bay.

Now, Yahoo! and Google can globally offer what mshaft is seemingly wanting to offer only to US residents or CONUS-based purchases. Maybe it is the case that msoft IS globally offering "thrash-backs" in each country, but that might not be tenable considering how relatively low prices *might* be in non-CONUS consumer markets. But, Yahoo! and Google together, and with Baidu, and, say, CyWorld, and the analogs in Japan, Taiwan, etc, can do a REAL SLAM-DUNK whammo on msoft.

GO YAHOO!, GOOGLE, BAIDU, YAHOO! JAPAN, CYWORLD, et al. DO IT. DO IT!

And, dance, thresh, thrash, and jig at msoft's expense to the tune of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2yCgO1vRT8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_It_('Til_You're_Satisfied)

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But, I laughed reading the following:

"much better."

"Microsoft is like a bad restaurant - no matter what the incentive, you don't want to eat there. Their product isn't working and their share of the market proves that." "

Maybe msoft should consider a saying one of my friends (Chinese and Vietnamese) said about Chinese restaurants: "The dirtier the bathroom, the better the food." But, then, is there an anallog in msoft's case? They've pretty much beaten black and blue their customers, partners and suppliers. What's next, turning them into food chips? Will we hear, "MICROSOFT IS PEEEEE-POHL"? (ala "Soylent Green")