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Can you provide the source about the part " Microsoft actually has affiliate agreements with these companies to take a slice of the profits"?
by tuananh 13y ago
Can you provide the source about the part " Microsoft actually has affiliate agreements with these companies to take a slice of the profits"?
- gregd 13y agoCitation needed. Sounds like more FUD.
- judydudy 13y agoBing has affiliate agreements with them. It is not FUD. You can believe it or not.
- JimmaDaRustla 13y agoS.O.U.R.C.E.?
- bybjorn 13y agoThere are a couple in the comments above, this is one example: http://allthingsd.com/20101201/conduit-dumps-google-search-for-microsofts-bing/ http://allthingsd.com/20101201/conduit-dumps-google-search-f...
- shrikant 13y agoI remember the Microsoft deal with Conduit [1], but can't dig up anything that links Microsoft with Babylon. Interestingly, that link implies that Conduit had a deal with Google before they got a better deal for switching to Bing. [1] http://allthingsd.com/20101201/conduit-dumps-google-search-for-microsofts-bing/ http://allthingsd.com/20101201/conduit-dumps-google-search-f...
- woodchuck64 13y agoI think that's the point: when Google has refused to continue to profit off browser-hijacking companies, Microsoft is only too eager to step up to offer Bing.
- blahbl4hblah 13y agoYeah...that's really selfless of them...you know, not continuing to screw people...it was ok when they started screwing people just not when the renegotiation happened. Google isn't a person that lives in your neighborhood that you can trust with your weed-whacker...they excel at making people like you think that they are "on your side"...and you believe it.
- rrrrtttt 13y agoUnfortunately I can't find anything in English, although Babylon was going to do an IPO in the US earlier this year, so you would expect there to be some information about them in English. The Hebrew article talks about how they are "diversifying away" from Google by making affiliate agreements with Microsoft Bing and Yahoo. The Hebrew article is here: http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000874482 http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000874482.
- Matt_Cutts 13y agoInteresting story; thanks for posting that.
- flaktrak 13y agoYeah Matt it is