Archive for July 14th, 2006

July 14

Google not allowed to take Microsoft’s food

Posted by Elliot
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The chief operating officer of Microsoft, Kevin Turner, said at a company conference: “Those people are not going to be allowed to take food off our plate, because that is what they are intending to do.”
The “people” that Turner was referring to was Google, and the “food” was corporate search customers. Google has been wading […]

July 14

Not a perfect economic solution

Posted by Elliot
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Google is smart. Today Shuman Ghosemajumder posted “Let click fraud happen”? Uh, no., a post that clarifies Eric Schmidt’s comments on click fraud. It doesn’t go far enough, though. It’s an economic “solution”, yes, but it’s not perfect. In fact, the more I think about this, the more I realize that it would not […]