I think the difference here is live.com is gone for searching...people might not realize they are by default being pushed to bing instead of live now.
As far what Tom is talking about, he can blame MS as he always does, but it's more of an ISP problem. Even if MS begs them to do this, they have to agree. On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:34 PM, t.piwowar <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > On Jun 10, 2009, at 8:43 PM, Stephen Brownfield wrote: > >> I'll be honest, I have not been really been following this thread. >> Today, however, I noticed that if a person typed an incorrect web site >> address or forgot the ".com" ".org" etc at the end Bing was used to help >> them find the correct site. I do not find this in and of itself bad. >> However, if these are considered hits on Bing it is at best misleading. >> It seems in most of the cases I witnessed it was a typo not a true search >> and Bing would not have been the search engine chosen if it was. Is this >> what was meant by the title of this thread? >> > > I have read that this is considered to be a bad thing as it opens users to > cross-site scripting attacks. > > http://www.darkreading.com/security/app-security/showArticle.jhtml > ?articleID=211201335 > > I see M$ would rather goose Bing's numbers than keep its customers safe. A > typical, dangerous M$ dirty trick. > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
