Microsoft using vBulletin Spam Bots to promote Bing?

Ok, on my forum I got a post today:

Not strange, however, the signature says this:

I thought to myself, this sounds like a bot! So I google'd this signature and guess what I found:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q="Bin...ey+I'm+new"&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=94f5bc3d92523f1a

Thousands of copies of that EXACT post with the EXACT signature. No links or anything. Looks to be some sort of viral attempt for Microsoft Bing to make it appear that people actually like their new serach engine. Don't get me wrong, Bing has made some improvements on some things, but is no match for Google. And using spam bots to promote their new product with fake enthusiasm is not a good sign.

 

Dont think microsoft is using spam bots..I might be wrong , but just cant imagine this being happening..

 

I doubt they would, although its possible.

 

Too hard to believe if its really true... but yes as shawn said what's the IP of the user...? but shawn might it not be possible that they must be using proxies if they are doing this actually?

also with the google search link as is pointed in the first point only results 2000+ results - so why this low publicity and do actually Microsoft needs such a thing to do?

 

I dont think they will do that. There was a survey conducted that Bing now is 2nd in rank to Google.

With regards to spambots it may be possible but I dont think they will do that. Big companies are afraid of getting a bad reputation.

 

I doubt they'd be doing this themselves. My bet would be they hired an agency that in turn used the spam bots or outsourced it. But there's no way Microsoft doesn't know whats going on.

Email:
IP: 212.235.107.45

Resolves to:
DSL212-235-107-45.bb.netvision.net.il

Google'd it:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source...=f&aqi=&oq=212.235.107.45&fp=94f5bc3d92523f1a

 

Of course they would! No dirty trick is beneath Microsoft. Been there, done that.

You mean statistics? No. Still bringing up the rear
but, if you add Yahoo search into that, they would be second, far, far behind Google.

 

Bing is no where near Google. Not even close.

 

The users are from Israel.
BTW Bing is 3rd after Yahoo and that for time being before Microsoft swallows Yahoo in few months

 

this made me lol.

Microsoft is nuts.

 

The thing that makes me certain that microsoft is behind this (however far back) is the fact that the user, in these thousands of posts, makes not a single link. Forum bots are ONLY used by spammers to generate some sort of lead, either by link or by posting links for SEO and PR.

This user makes NO links. Just text. Just text that supports Bing. No one has anything to gain by this spam except Bing.

 

Maybe this is microsoft trying to get in on the cutting edge using " social media" to promote themselves, oh wait didn't they buy a share in some website face, ahh i forget the name ;-)

 

I don't see MS doing this, as stated in this post, maybe an outsouced contract