- Feb 25th, 2008
- Marketing
- 6 Comments
Ask Went On The Wrong Road, Now Microsoft ?
I think you all know that incentives can’t be good for search engines, but please tell this to both Ask and Microsoft too. After Ask.com allowed a company paying people to search using their search engine, now Microsoft is offering prizes for searching.
What advertiser will be crazy now to pay for his ads to be shown on any of those two search engines, when people are paid to search and will probably just click the ads by mistake, without any potential interest on the product ?
Microsoft has been desperate for a while to grab a piece of the market and has proved it when they tried to buy Yahoo!, but that was a good move, at least in comparison with this one. It looks like they have to think about changing their marketing team, because their decisions are only going to harm the company and make them lose money.
I hope at least Google won’t take the wrong road and keep fighting with the others by relevancy. Anyway they will probably see an increase in ad sales and advertisers moving from Ask and Microsoft.
I agree that is just stupid and it totally defeats the purpose. I dont think google will sell out though.
Yahoo turned down the offer rite? but I’m sure Microsoft will find a way to change their mind. It’s all a matter of time. I’m hoping google will stay the same as it is.
I am always surprised when people act offended that anyone on the internet is trying to make money. Let’s see–huge worldwide reach, all the tools in place, and almost no policies and regulations, hmmmmmm . . . . What did you all think would happen, anyway–the perfect Utopia or Camelot? Hardly.
Maybe it just depends on which side of program you’re on. The only thing that doesn’t change is change itself. I don’t really like change, but it would be pretty boring without it.
Microsoft truly wants better hold on the market that’s why Ms is trying to acquire Yahoo
It’s stupid. How did Google become the top search engine? Maybe they should step back and look at how Google achieved that. I personally find that it would be better for both Yahoo and Microsoft if Microsoft acquires Yahoo.