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Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 9:15 am
Posted By: aimClear 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
(Danny Sullivan post) If Microsoft's Yahoo walkaway is a ploy to save $5 billion, CEO Steve Ballmer may have proven himself pennywise & pound foolish. He was prepared to spend billions to make Microsoft a serious Google rival but may have destroyed read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 15, 2008 - 5:55 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 145 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Live Search and AdCenter have reached a truly depressing state. With this in mind, I am pleading with them. Please, get better. There are basic and obvious problems. None of them too hard to fix. This is just getting depressing. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 16, 2007 - 3:52 pm
Posted By: Sebastian 293 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Rumors are out that Microsoft will launch a porn affiliate programm soon. The top secret code name for this project is "pornbucks", but analysts say that it will be launched as "M$ SMUT CASH" next year or so. Live Search promotes it since August 200 read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 13, 2007 - 4:48 pm
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 296 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ekstreme.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Ok, here's even more evidence of MS spamming us. What will it take to make it stop??? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 5, 2007 - 2:41 pm
Posted By: Sebastian 274 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Live Search will not dump their clueless and ineffective search quality project. They're proud to be the one and only bigger search engine that spams.

Even when they apologize to the Webmaster community, they're not able to tell the truth. They read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 23, 2007 - 4:34 am
Posted By: mvandemar 287 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
It looks like Microsoft decided to re-think their strategy of hiding the ownership of the IP blocks that they are sending all of the massive referrer spam from. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: randfish 387 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Microsoft Other
This Thursday, I'm meeting with the Live Search team and they'd love to hear from the search community at large about bugs, issues, opportunities and ways to better communicate with webmasters. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ciaran 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://voices.washingtonpost.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
The Washington Post reports on a planned feature of IE8 that could have grave repercussions for anyone using 3rd party analytics or ad serving software, as users may be able to block them.
"It has the potential to undermine the economies of the Int read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mpilatow 108 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Steve Ballmer was egged today in Hungarian University of Economy. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 249 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
HA! Now that is a really cheeky monkey move dontcha think?

TechCrunch - The content itself isn’t all that exciting, but they do demonstrate various positive aspects of Vista and Live that viewers may not be aware of. The more interesting aspect read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 112 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
In just three weeks, I'll be asking Microsoft president Kevin Johnson, who oversees the Windows and Online Services division, questions relating to search as part of his keynote at our SMX Advanced show in Seattle, June 3-4. I want your help! What q read more »
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Avatar Posted By: yeepage 153 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Are there enough connections between email spam and search engine spam that exploring and understanding how they might be related may be helpful to search engines in fighting search engine spam? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mvandemar 154 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ekstreme.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
eKstreme goes Terminator on the rogue Live.com bot. Hasta la vista, MSN! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: robgarner 104 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
This will strengthen Google's position as the primary aggregator of public domain works. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SpostareDuro 189 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Can tracking actual user search and browsing behaviors better help a search engine understand which pages may best answer queries posed by searchers at search engines? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: gabs 275 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.theregister.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft Other
Christmas is almost here!! :) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: aimClear 215 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
I was NOT going to submit this, BUT NowSourcing inspired me to in http://sphinn.com/story/26338. Here's yet ANOTHER lightweight (& phun) Yahoo story. Not meant to be comprehensive. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MelC 181 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.melcarson.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Full, Frank & Funny! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: drmadcow 234 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.beanstalk-inc.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Believe it or not Microsoft is now publishing Childrens books, starting with "Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?". Click on the link to read the book online, its a classic and a short read. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 198 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
DealBook - New York Times - In an escalation of its fight for Yahoo, Microsoft will authorize a proxy fight at the Internet company this week, people briefed on the matter told DealBook. Unless Yahoo quickly reverses course and enters into talks, Mi read more »
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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 297 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
I have to agree with Marshall...this is so simple, it's brilliant...put a small drop-down menu on your web page that will easily allow a user to translate your page into a different language.

Microsoft's done some pretty smart things lately (the read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jimhedger 125 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.metamend.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Today, an awful lot of money and prestige is on the line. Steve Ballmer is going to go hostile or he goes home. Time is of the essence and with Yahoo!’s Annual General Meeting sneaking up quickly, time is getting very tight indeed. Expect action… read more »
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Avatar Posted By: garyprice 310 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourceshelf.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Some of the recently registered domains include:

New Domains
Here are some of the many new domains registered by Microsoft.

+ msdnchallenge.com
+ msdnchallenge.net
+ msdnchallenge.org
+ technetchallenge.com
+ technetchallenge.net
+ tech read more »
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Avatar Posted By: mpilatow 132 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jaankanellis.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Ever wonder who is hot right now in entertainment? Sure I do :)Actually this new xRank feature at Live Search is pretty cool. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SamFreedom 258 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.clazh.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
"Wow, a story about Microsoft and Internet Explorer and most all of the comments in here are positive? I Never thought I’d see that!" read more »
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