plus their existing adcenter platform is automated in such a bizarre way… you get approved for one keyword, but then disapproved for the plural version of the same word. and there’s just no traffic there.

i think this is a fairly solid idea, but it’s almost like there’s nobody behind the curtain.

TechCrunch называет новую инициативу Microsoft — Live Search Cashback — отчаянной и, вместе с тем, блех

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Look up TomTom One XL on google products and then on live search cash back.

Go to the ***tech for less*** listing.
Where do you get it for less? And how do you know the retailer is legit?

This is why relevance is more important than marketing gimmicks.

Go to the tech crunch listing.
Where do you get it for less? And how do you know the retailer is legit?

This is why relevance is more important than marketing gimmicks.

The End is Near. We will, one day, look back at this month as the beginning of the end of Microsoft. Yes, it will never disappear completely, but they are now on a long slippery decline that over the next decade will result in a significant change in their influence in the industry and with consumers.

Yes, the XBox business is finally profitable, but the business has less strategic value than was once imagined. The desktop applications business is strong, but we can all see that the required shift to a asp model (driven by Google and linux and open source) will decrease operating margins without a corresponding increase in volume. The OS business is a mess. The Search is game over.

Yes there are some good things happening at MS, (their CRM products for instance) but they do not offer the opportunity to create dominant positions of the past and as such their influence is now on the wane.

All empires eventually end. The reasons are not really complex. Inevitably size, complexity, territorial reach, and stratification, become insurmountable obstacles to their success.

Such is the story unfolding before us.