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I'm posting this here because I'd love to see HN's reaction to this competition. (Not because I want any of you to download IE8!) I think it's an outrageous wa

by Jem 17y ago

I'm posting this here because I'd love to see HN's reaction to this competition. (Not because I want any of you to download IE8!) I think it's an outrageous way of trying to pull in users. Can't attract legitimate IE8 downloaders? Bribe them instead!

jedc 17y ago
It reminds me of a contest my old hometown newspaper used to run each year: a treasure hunt with clues printed daily in the paper. It certainly helped boost readership rates! Yes, it's a bit odd, but it's a new way to get users to try IE8...
shabda 17y ago
Firefox: Can attract FF downloaders. Ask your obnoxious supportors to obnoxiously push it down everyone's throat. (I am tying this from FF on ubuntu, I love FF.) This is a legitimate strategy. Just because it is MS, this doesnot become evil.
- Jem 17y ago
  I didn't use the word evil, you did.
- thorax 17y ago
  Or, of course, Google Adsense paying site owners $1 per Firefox download. That was going on quite a long time.