Comments on: Microsoft to pay search engine users?

By: Panayotis

Panayotis — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:31:31 +0000

IE is one of the strongest tools Microsoft used to have to lock users to its platform.

willc2 — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:21:48 +0000

When people use Firefox, how does that affect Microsoft’s revenue stream?

IE costs money to develop but doesn’t bring in any money as far as I can see.

As far as paying search engine users is concerned, talk is cheap. MS hasn’t written any web search users a check, have they?

S G — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 15:34:37 +0000

Interesting, I had never thought about it. But I guess it is impossible to award the search engine users.

I mean it gives them really perverse incentives to use the engine all the time and it would surely bring an unnecesary increase in internet traffic…