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    • Microsoft's Cash-Back Search: Return of the Sneakerphone
      To continue the argument... I decided to try live.com to search for the one of the hottest things around now... the Ninentedo Wii.

      search.live.com/result...

      What you end up seeing is the top half of the page reserved for sponsored links, and videos. I have to move down to the bottom half of the page to see my search results. What makes Microsoft think that I care for videos?

      Just give me what I want.
      May 22 13:37 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
    • Microsoft's Cash-Back Search: Return of the Sneakerphone
      Microsoft just needs to build a better search engine, plain and simple. Incentive gimmicks don't work. If you want me to use your search engine, make it good so that I use live.com to find something... not for some cash handout. At the end of the day you haven't solved my problem which is to find something quickly and that is also relevant.

      I'm not sure who at MSFT conjured up this idea, but my guess it was some "ingenious" idea that arose from the marketing team. Get back to the basics. You have a smart engineering team, leverage it.
      May 22 13:28 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
    • Microsoft and Yahoo: The Deal That Wasn’t Meant to Be, For Now
      Microsoft did the right thing. They already have enough strategic things to focus on. MSFT has always been a company to chase and come in late to the game (IE over Netscape, Excel over Lotus, etc.) and has done well. With respect to their search advertising business and content in general this is something I have a hard time believing will ever materialize into a revenue generating machine. Content/Ads are not at Microsoft's core. This was evident with their recent MSN/Ad chief leaving the company (Joanne Bradford). MAdison Avenue graduates, and Engineers don't mix very well.

      This type of mix seems to have also plagued Yahoo. Troubles were brewing long ago, if you happened to read the "Peant Butter Manifesto". A great read by the way.
      paul.kedrosky.com/arch...

      So the question now is how does Google continue to breed the Marketing/Engineering mix so well given their massive growth? Most of Google's applications bleed engineering talent, with Marketing initiatives taking a back seat (at least that is what I perceive). At some point the company will experience the law of "too many people" competing agendas, egos and the like can derail any organization, and surely will surface if not already within Google. The company's CEO (Eric Schmidt) made a slight mention of this challenge on a CNBC interview last night about "managing the creative process"
      www.cnbc.com/id/243873.../

      That's a fancy sentence for, "I have so many smart people, and some of them simply hate each other"
      May 05 09:34 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
    • Behind the Myths of Cloud Computing
      These are very general statements about cloud computing usage going out to 2010-2012. Even if the research comes from Gartner, there are major adoption issues at the ground level for the engineers that actually build the applications.

      You can see my full comments about this subject here:
      seekingalpha.com/artic...
      Apr 08 12:42 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
    • Micro-Hoo!™: Desktop vs. Internet
      Everything taken with a grain of salt... Barry's take on people using their hotmail account for garbage, rings true for me. I thought that was funny.
      Feb 04 18:36 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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