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> Microsoft has a long history of funding, encouraging, and astroturfing opposition to Google. What exactly have they done to this effect? The closest I can t
by tomjakubowski 9y ago
> Microsoft has a long history of funding, encouraging, and astroturfing opposition to Google.
What exactly have they done to this effect? The closest I can think of is Scroogled [1], which was pretty transparently a Microsoft marketing campaign. I would hardly characterize it as "astroturfing".
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130207164132/http://www.scroogled.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130207164132/http://www.scroog...
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