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LinkyHahahaha! I wish Microsoft would share it's money/softare with me! If Gates isn't planning on giving me money then why does he say that people who make a lot of money should?!   
  See it to believe it.I suppose it would be done proportional to the number of searches you make.   ;  So... users will be getting money in return for using MSN Search.Am I misinterpreting this, or does anyone else think it sounds like they're keeping track of your searches?   ;Quote:Original post by StukkmAm I misinterpreting this, or does anyone else think it sounds like they're keeping track of your searches?You mean like Google already does, along with most of the links on Google you click on, with a globally unique ID that also lets them tie in the information with the email their software reads and indexes, the news you look at, the maps and directions you request...Google makes it's money because it has terabytes of personal information indexed by unique ID, allowing it to sell highly targeted advertising.   ;Quote:Original post by MichalsonQuote:Original post by StukkmAm I misinterpreting this, or does anyone else think it sounds like they're keeping track of your searches?You mean like Google already does, along with most of the links on Google you click on, with a globally unique ID that also lets them tie in the information with the email their software reads and indexes, the news you look at, the maps and directions you request...Google makes it's money because it has terabytes of personal information indexed by unique ID, allowing it to sell highly targeted advertising.Source?(I'm talking about the globally unique ID)   ;  These things are alleged all the time about Google. I have seen some proper articles about Gmail doing this but couldn't offer a link. I suggest you try using...[google]Ironic that a company makes a tool to let you find dirt on them!   ;Quote:Original post by StukkmSo... users will be getting money in return for using MSN Search.Am I misinterpreting this, or does anyone else think it sounds like they're keeping track of your searches?No, you've got it right but some representative from Microsoft already said that they wouln't be doing anything like this soon. Too bad...[DEPRESSED] Money is good (as is free software);  It's an article from Indian press.  It's not like giving free software in India will cost Microsoft a lot, heh.   ;Quote:Original post by CowardQuote:Original post by MichalsonQuote:Original post by StukkmAm I misinterpreting this, or does anyone else think it sounds like they're keeping track of your searches?You mean like Google already does, along with most of the links on Google you click on, with a globally unique ID that also lets them tie in the information with the email their software reads and indexes, the news you look at, the maps and directions you request...Google makes it's money because it has terabytes of personal information indexed by unique ID, allowing it to sell highly targeted advertising.Source?(I'm talking about the globally unique ID)Look at your own Google cookie, then at the source code for the page (it's more transparent under IE6, as the most common method causes each link you click to call a secondary handler that loads a fake image in the background to send back a visible set of parameters to Google. Under FireFox with the Google search bar it's harder - each outside link is of a class "l", which doesn't actually exist in the normal page source [you'd have to take apart the Google Firefox extension to figure out what all code is behind it]).There are also a number of explorations online that have been able to document how the GUID/Timestamp/Hash signature combination are used to control various Google services (such as preventing you from just getting a new cookie to read lots of pages from Google's old book search)   ;Quote:Original post by BBBQuote:But they don't share these advertising revenues with the end users who help them get the revenue, Gates said. "Google keeps all of the money with itself," he added.LOL. So now GOOGLE is the evil corporation because it doesn't give the money back to their customers?Huh? Gates didn't say Google was evil. He's merely offering an alternative business model to Google's and pointing out that they don't pay users for search. Whether or not a failure to do so is "evil" is a completely different discussion.   