John Meyer [mailto:[email protected]] showed us: > > http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2010032901035OPMS?utm _source=DaronBabin&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_content=GoogComp&utm_> campaign=twitter > > > Now, the article is correct in that none of the first links > are directly > to OpenOffice.org. However, it fails to mention that a lot > of them have > secondary click-through links to the site with no pay wall. > So, is this > an effective way to kill off OpenOffice?
At least to the extent of their search-engine market-share, yes. This is standard tactics for Mickey. I used to think that a lot of MS-bashing as "evil empire" (as opposed to incompentence or arrogance about their products) was kinda overdone and paranoid. Then last year, I followed a discussion for a couple of weeks about the new Bing, and Wikipedia fraud. Basically, it turns out, Mickey maintains an actual team of - for want of a better word - dis-informationists. They were caught red-handed storming some Wikipedia articles, taking out info that was critical of, or unflattering to MS. Basically, they'd 'sanitize' an article until it no longer favored a competitor or questioned an MS quality or practice. No big deal there. Other Wiki participants and editors could just reset or otherwise edit the article to reflect balance, truth and verifiable content with citations. Happens all the time when Wiki articles are vandalized or are corrupted by zealots. BUT the key trick here is that the dis-information team would complete their vandalism and immediately trigger a scan by Bing, and caching of the page. Then the Wikipedia folks would correct the article, but Bing would ignore the correction. Bing users would only ever see the falsified or 'sanitized' page from future Bing searches. Imagine if Toyota had been doing something like that regarding their random-acceleration and brake-system problems... Hmm. It might be instructive to compare Bing and Google search results about Toyota's or other companies' problems. I think you could soon build a database of who in the corporate world (or the political world, for that matter...) is, or is not a paying client of Mickey's dis-informationist services (as fronted by Bing). The whole mess was documented by some angry folks who recorded the activities, complete with timestamps, IP tracebacks, etc. The MS dis-informationists 'participated' in the discussion by issuing denials or calling the whistle- blowers "paranoid", etc. Several names and aliases were tracked back to a small group of Mickey's employees who have been doing similar dirty tricks for years. Bing! I, for one, refuse to use it. - !...@#$%^&*&^...@!! The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
