The problem is that now this is public, any positive review of a Microsoft product will be viewed with suspicion, having the very opposite of the intended effect.
Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer
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Re: Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least try to make is sound like a real comment rather than copy and pasted marketing verbiage. Unless this is satire...
You must be one of these people who complain about Onion articles not being truthful.
But this is not the Onion, this is HN and if we let too many parody comment on the top of the discussion, I fear it will become boring. Downvoted the GGP
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#73While I can understand some of the concerns here, I'd encourage you to look at where Internet Explorer is now; it's come a long way in the past few years. IE today offers a brand new experience with many different features. The reworked Internet Explorer lets you search smarter and do more with its cool new features, such as multitasking, pinnable sites, and full-screen browsing. Wherever you are, Internet Explorer i…
You are paid for advertising IE too.
Re: Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
You must be one of these people who complain about Onion articles not being truthful.
But this is not the Onion, this is HN and if we let too many parody comment on the top of the discussion, I fear it will become boring. Downvoted the GGP
I fear that if we let complaints about comments, concern about comment quality and long threads going back and forward defending the legitimacy of parody comments in comments, humour, humourless responses and expressions of concern about the complaints dominating the discussion, HN will become boring.
Re: Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer
#75Re: Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer
#76That "Advocate Marketing" company has a list of customers in the slider banner on their website: Target, AT&T , Fossil, Dole Food Company, McDonalds, Bing , Verizon , UnitedWay (non-profit?!), 3M, Anheuser-Busch, The Clorox Company, Walmart, EMC Corporation , Aveda Corporation, Expedia, Windows Phone , Citibank, Purina, Wells Fargo, Snapfish , Clinique, Oral-B, Sara Lee, Haier . (IT companies/brands are italicized.)
It's a nice list for search engine providers. Perhaps DDG could low-light results that include companies that have paid-blogging programs? "Caution: the quality of these pages might be low because $CORP pays bloggers to promote them"
Advocacy tracking/detection/whatever would be a great feature for ddg.
Re: Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer
#77While I can understand some of the concerns here, I'd encourage you to look at where Internet Explorer is now; it's come a long way in the past few years. IE today offers a brand new experience with many different features. The reworked Internet Explorer lets you search smarter and do more with its cool new features, such as multitasking, pinnable sites, and full-screen browsing. Wherever you are, Internet Explorer i…
Funny. As a fan of Microsoft that uses their development tools and happily owns a Windows Phone, the best thing Microsoft could do is create a fork of Chromium and call it Internet Explorer 12. They seriously just need to start over completely. I've read all the advantages of IE11 but Chrome and Firefox just blow it away in speed and lack of hassle. They'd probably go back to 90% browser share if they built in a fork of Chromium to the OS that they didn't modify in any significant way (ex: don't try to make it support ActiveX, just let that technology die).
Re: Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer
#78What's really amazing is how lackluster the whole campaign is. IE is a touted as a "new browser", but here are the features they are especially proud of: 1) Full Screen Browsing. 2) Multitasking, which apparently means "Skype while full screen browsing". 3) Reading view, a la the Readability or Clearly plug ins. 4) Pinned sites, which I guess I don't understand, but it looks like Windows 8 tiles. http://www.rethinkie…
That's because IE development is typically around 2 years behind the others. So they can only "brag" about stuff others have already had for a while, but try to spin the features as new.
It works for Apple.
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#79yeh Microsoft definitly is inspired by Google in this regard... http://searchengineland.com/googles-jaw-dropping-sponsored-p...
Re: Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer
#80While I can understand some of the concerns here, I'd encourage you to look at where Internet Explorer is now; it's come a long way in the past few years. IE today offers a brand new experience with many different features. The reworked Internet Explorer lets you search smarter and do more with its cool new features, such as multitasking, pinnable sites, and full-screen browsing. Wherever you are, Internet Explorer i…
If it's so good, then they don't need to pay for astro-turfing now? That strategy comes from a position of weakness, not strength.
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