Win prizes for using Microsoft Live Search.
Microsoft is trying to lure users to use its Live Search Engine by throwing some prizes.
Reportedly Microsoft sent out emails to users to participate in “Live Search Trial Program.” The program rewards users with tickets every time they use Live Search, and these tickets can be redeemed for prizes later on. The prizes include everything from t-shirts to video games and the promo will extend through February of next year, according to Ars Technica
This strategy may help to get some users initially but in the long run it doesn’t work unless they do some tweaking to their search engine.
Live Search is a Joke, you don’t beleive me? just look at the below screenshots you will know what i mean.
Do yourself the above search in Live and click the first link, you will get a nice 404 page.
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November 9th, 2007 9:37 pm
November 10th, 2007 10:58 am
November 10th, 2007 1:56 pm
November 13th, 2007 1:26 pm
i don’t think someone will use Live becoz of this promotion, if they use also they won’ be a longterm user
November 18th, 2007 5:43 am
August 17th, 2008 3:13 pm
Mike Arrington on Live Search came up with stuff to do with Mike Arrington.
On Google, it might be what YOUR looking for, but it came up with a completely different website
August 17th, 2008 3:36 pm
“The Search results for Live Search in the picture might not be correct, but they do actually match with what you enterd.”
but this approach might not give the best results, now try the same search, the first result is “ismikearringtonadick”, is that is the most relevant result live search found, this is even a bigger joke.
“Mike Arrington on Live Search came up with stuff to do with Mike Arrington.”
the first result in the picture at the time of search doesn’t have any content, again that is not what i wanted.
“On Google, it might be what YOUR looking for, but it came up with a completely different website”
exactly it is a different website but that is what 99% of the people expect from search results.
Google can tell you exactly what you are searching for and Live will just point our similar results which in most cases are just useless.