Re: Thoughts on Bing

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:06:03 EDT, der Mouse said:

> hasn't been true for a long time.  The actual situation is that people
> performing searches are the product and the advertisers are the
> customers; the search results are just the coin in which the searchers
> are paid for being part of the product.

Amen to that. Consider this mail I got today:

Subject: Fall for incredible back to school deals on Bing cashback!
From: Bing cashback <communications () microsoft windowslive com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:09:12 -0700 (PDT)

And I don't even *use* Bing - I got that because I set up an MSN account
to IM with a relative (was easier than getting somebody on another continent
connected to an IM service I was already on), and I apparently missed the
"Don't spam me" checkbox along the way...

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