<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi Gang<br>Supplemental question your honour:<br> Is Microsoft so desperate for money that has stooped to this?<br> <br>John<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><span class="intro">We act as though comfort and luxury<br>were the chief requirements of life,<br>when all that we need to make us happy<br>is something to be enthusiastic about.<br>—Einstein<br></span>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>==================================<br>John Eddie Kerr | Guelph, Ontario <br>==================================<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 1/10/10, john@netdirect.ca <i><john@netdirect.ca></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);
margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: john@netdirect.ca <john@netdirect.ca><br>Subject: [kwlug-disc] Biased Bing Search?<br>To: "KWLUG discussion" <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org><br>Date: Sunday, January 10, 2010, 3:14 PM<br><br><div id="yiv311344465"><font size="2" face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div>I've noticed the last two days a commercial on TV for Special K. The call to action is to search for "Special K" on Bing.ca.<br><br>I'm figuring that Bing and Kellogs have an arrangement where "customized" results are given for that term. The first page clearly has Kellogs corporate sites or special K friendly sites. A search at Google shows more variety.<br><br>I hate to be a pessimist but are we (as a culture) going to end up being controlled by a biased search engine that favours paying advertisers?<br></div><div><br></div></font>
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