I agree. Ads that are clearly ads are fine.<br><br>It is the paid search results that are intermingled with other search results without clearly being marked as sponsored or something.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 3:03 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@netdirect.ca">john@netdirect.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<font size="2"><p>It's not the obvious ads that I'm questioning. I know that ads will be tailored to my search. The non-ad results is what I'm questioning. It looks like MS may be tailoring search results for advertisers. I expect search results to not be tainted by ad revenue. I want an honest search. <br>
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</p></font><hr><font size="2"><p><b> From: </b>"Joe Wennechuk" [<a href="mailto:youcanreachmehere@hotmail.com" target="_blank">youcanreachmehere@hotmail.com</a>]<br><b> Sent: </b>01/10/2010 01:17 PM EST</p><div class="im">
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<div><font face="Calibri">The ability to shape search results is very
young. It also depends on how much the searcher is willing to reveal about
themselves. I think shaping ads based on demographic, and geographic information
per user per request is coming very close to reality. If the results can really
be "Customized" to a useful extent where I get 1 or two ads for products that I
really need ( Maybe even based on what's in my fridge ) and then the information
I'm requesting, then I would live with that; as long as, the ads are
labeled as such, and I continue to get useful information as well.</font></div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="john@netdirect.ca" href="mailto:john@netdirect.ca" target="_blank">john@netdirect.ca</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 10, 2010 10:14 AM</div>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> [kwlug-disc] Biased Bing Search?</div></div></div>
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<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>
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