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"The reason why Microsoft was happy to throw the entire Web under a bus became
clear later in the post:
Microsoft will ensure that small businesses who wish to transfer their
advertising to Bing can do so simply and with no transfer costs. We
recognise the important role search advertising plays to the more than two
million small businesses in Australia.
We will invest further to ensure Bing is comparable to our competitors and
we remind people that they can help, with every search Bing gets better at
finding what you are looking for.
Bing is Microsoft’s largely forgotten search engine. In the desperate hope that
making things difficult for Google might encourage a couple of people to switch
to Bing, Microsoft decided to cozy up to the newspaper industry that was
hell-bent on undermining the Web. A few weeks after Smith’s blog post,
Microsoft joined with European newspaper publishers to call for the Web to be
weakened there too."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
