Microsoft paying companies to use MSN Live search?
Microsoft Corp. is offering financial incentives to large enterprise customers to encourage their employees to use the MSN Live Search service. “Microsoft Service Credits for Web Search” a Powerpoint overview of the program contains the following.
“Employees search the web daily with tools from Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo. OEMs and web sites are already earning credits based on searches that their users bring. Now, your organization can earn credits for Microsoft web searches and redeem them for Microsoft or preferred partner deployment and training services. More searches earns more credits towards the services you value.”
The cash being offered is not exactly small - between $2 and $10 USD per computer per year, along with signing bonuses. Though that may not sound like a lot, when you consider it going over thousands of computers in a large corporate network the figure really begins to mount. Even if these credits can only be redeemed for more software or training, it is certainly an enticing offer.
Business looking to optimise their websites efficiently should not neglect Microsoft’s Live Search and Yahoo, even though Google can sometimes seem like the be-all and end-all.
Ultimate Surrender Said,
August 13, 2008 @ 2:09 am
damn :O who would have though of that besides google