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by yanw 15y ago
"The Economist" on a similar Microsoft/ICOMP/Burson-Marsteller anti-Google event that took place in London: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/03/microsoft-v-g...
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by yanw 15y ago
How come Facebook wasn't included in Microsoft's PR-agency announced P3P "revelation"?
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by yanw 15y ago
So the WSJ publishes another one of it’s alarmist articles about Google and Safari during the weekend and Microsoft wants to capitalize by pretending it just now discovered that P3P (a defunct and shitty protocol) is useless and no one us
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by yanw 15y ago
A thorough hatchet job by the WSJ, "Google" mentioned 44 times in that piece.
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by yanw 15y ago
Then get an Apps account and don't complain if there is a fly in your free soup.
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by yanw 15y ago
Their algorithms know more about you than you do yourself. There is your FUD. Also sender and recipient "identity" have central role in identifying spam. Microsoft is building a profile about you as well and owns an ad network, which make
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by yanw 15y ago
A machine parsing text is not the equivalent of a human "reading" it, all webmail services parse emails either to check for spelling errors or combat spam, Gmail uses adsense as well which is a much less annoying ad system than most. The "r
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by yanw 15y ago
HN never lacked in Google-bashing. You could have chosen an example less worth of being flagged though, a post with substance that doesn't depict Microsoft as a deceitful FUD peddler.
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by yanw 15y ago
Are you seriously commending Microsoft on a deceitful and misleading ad campaign!? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3544095
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by yanw 15y ago
Anthropomorphizing webmail are we? Equating machine parsing to a human "reading" email is just straight out deception and preying on the uninformed. Hotmail and every other webmail service parses emails either to check for spelling errors o
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by yanw 15y ago
They did that as a response to those lawsuit (in France and elsewhere) It's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation.
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by yanw 15y ago
Didn't they start charging because they started getting sued for offering it free of charge? And according to other reports it's apparently illegal in France to offer something for free if it costs money to develop. But what about those who
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French Court Fines Google $660,000 Because Google Maps API Is Free(searchengineland.com)
1 points by yanw 15y ago|0 comments
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by yanw 15y ago
Why bother though? I mean "fairsearch" and Microsoft? why not just shrug it off like the obvious propaganda it is, nothing good can come out of referencing them.
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by yanw 15y ago
Yes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/01/31/on-the-go...
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by yanw 15y ago
Opt-out for a privacy policy!? and for a policy which aims at reducing the amount of policies!? read it and if you don't like it then don't use that product, there is your "opt-out". As for the changes in question, my point is that they do
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by yanw 15y ago
Won’t be the first time Microsoft used propaganda against a competitor (this manufactured brouhaha over the new privacy policy could be their doing for all I know). I'm not sure what they find so objectionable about the new privacy policy s
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by yanw 15y ago
Isn't that why operating systems let you make separate password protected profiles? Firefox does the same btw except they offer a master password, but what happens when you misplace that password? Chrome seemingly assumes that the profile p
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by yanw 15y ago
Contrary to that headline it's actually more of a counter-censorship measure: http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an... By utilizing ccTLDs, content removals can be managed on a per country basis, which will limit t
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by yanw 15y ago
Well put. Also worth noting that there is an anti-Google PR mechanism in place (honed over the years) that is used to feed the flames every time.
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Who Will Win the Race to Build the Web's Best Real-Name Identity Service?(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by yanw 15y ago|0 comments
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by yanw 15y ago
Use the toggle to turn off the social stuff then.
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by yanw 15y ago
Yeah but social relevance is soon becoming a big part of web relevance and that stuff will be sorted with time when a balance is achieved between social and other signals, the concept is sound it will just have to be subject to iteration t
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by yanw 15y ago
Full disclosure: Washington Post Co. Chairman and chief executive Donald E. Graham is a member of Facebook's board of directors. They omitted it this time it seems.
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by yanw 15y ago
Much of these "bubble" issues are created by interested parties (mainly your competitors) the best you could do about it is assembling a better PR team.
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by yanw 15y ago
Reads like a general letter than anything about SPYW or any new policy (they've always targeted ads).
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by yanw 15y ago
Nah, Apple has the best PR in the business; even posts about their revenue generate massive views.
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by yanw 15y ago
Nothing spikes pageviews like Google bashing.
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by yanw 15y ago
So instead of commending the CEO on articulating a vision and being determined about it the author somehow spins the words to fit the Google bashing theme of her previous posts. To be clear: "This is the path we’re headed down – a single un
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by yanw 15y ago
Which the author totally ignores.

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