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Microsoft's strategy seem to muddy Google's water, make users question them. Before passing judgment we'd need to know: 1. What % of people know that Google s
by OGinparadise 14y ago
Microsoft's strategy seem to muddy Google's water, make users question them.
Before passing judgment we'd need to know:
1. What % of people know that Google scans your email for ads
2. How many of them are upset about it and how upset.
What tech blogger say doesn't matter as much, their readers are already in one camp or another.
The Scroogled campaign with shopping was more effective. Judging by comments, many Google users didn't know that everything was an ad, not the "most relevant and unbiased result"
- rangibaby 14y ago"Microsoft's strategy seem to muddy Google's water, make users question them." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM equipment"
- OGinparadise 14y agoExcept that Google is the IBM here, MS is probably trusted less. IMO, they want to even the distrust score and then talk features
- nitrogen 14y agoHaving lived through the 90s, Google would have to do something incredibly bad, and Microsoft something inconceivably uncharacteristically good, before I'd ever trust Microsoft more than Google (not that I trust either to any great extent).