MS Gives Up to $10 to Clients Who Use Live Search Instead of Google

Basically they are paying companies to get their employees to use Live instead of Google. Think it will have an impact?

Saw it in a news article. I can't post links yet so you'll have to Google it I guess if you want to read it, unless your boss makes you use live that is.

Maybe someone else would post the link if they'd like to.

 

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070316-microsoft-paying-businesses-to-use-live-search.html

 

Microsoft has been saying they were going to "topple" Google in the search-engine arena.. But even Bill Gates doesn't have THAT much money!
Instead of trying to buy search-engine users, I suggest they use that money to make a search engine that works...

 

Google have brought enough firefox users with the $1 referral, nothing wrong with MS doing a similar thing.

 

It seems that MS is stupid enough .After We need innovation, not clone.

 

Who is this MS you talk about?? Do they have something to do with search?

 

Wow, incredible.

I never cease to be amazed at how far Bill will go.

 

MS Gives Up to $10 to Clients Who Use Live Search. . .

You couldn't pay me to use it

 

$10 for how long
that is the point

 

No way... not for this price

 

haha very interesting, MS going after google, but how far they will go?
Google is king of the web, lolz

 

What's worst is that:

....couldn't bring myself to do that -- certainly not for $2-$10!

 

In that case think about the "enrollment credit"

 

In that article it says some businesses could make $xxx,xxx's a year. Its not aimed at you and me just companies with a large amount of employees and computers.

 

I did not read the article but as far as i see, if their search engine is ready to fight with google, this is not a stupid idea but if they still are not ready, i should accept that this is a stupid movement

 

Yes, that was what I was about to say. They are not really interested in roping in personal users like us, but rather large corporations, which are the ones that really matter.

 

Yes you are right MS cant compete with google caz everyone loves google...

 

The day google drops their PR feature no one will love google. Its only the PR feature thats keeping google alive . MSN needs to come up with a nice algo of their own to own google.

 

I'll never do it for 10 bucks even for one week lol

Google is best search engine and all other might to grow enough to be equal to him

 

You what? PR means nothing. I think you'll find it's the quality of the search results that keep Google 'alive', which Live.com cannot currently compete with.