> > On 4/6/2010 9:13 AM, Lars Nooden wrote:
> >> The layers go like this:
> >>
> >> Yahoo -> Bing -> Wolfram Alpha
> >>
> >> If a comparison of the backend directly and the M$ advertising front end
> >> show a difference, then that would be useful to know, too.

Using MSIE 8, Win XP running under Virtual Box....
> 
> If anyone on the list knows someone still running Windows or knowing
> someone still dual booting Windows, then borrow access to the machine
> and try google, cuil, yahoo, bing and wolframalpha with these three
> searches in MSIE and save the first page or two or at least a count of
> the relevant hits:

All results (except Wolfram Alpha and Google) had 3 sponsored links as the 
first entries in the results (Google's sponsored links are in a separate 
column on the right). 
> 
>       open office

Bing: 4 sponsored links to non-standard sites (one or two of which are known 
scam sites), followed by link to OO.o home page

Yahoo!: 3 Sponsored links (same as Bing's), followed by openoffice.com.au, 
Wikipedia article, a link to Bouncer (!), then varios other download sites, 
none of which are official OO.o sotes

Wolfram Alpha is useless, no results to any of the queries

Google: First 4 hits link directly to OO.o, 5th to Wikipedia, then to OO.o 
Portable,  Sun, skip one hit to Mac Porting project....

>       "open office"

As above....

>       openoffice

Pretty much the same as the other searches, Bing gives a link to Sun's page on 
OO.o.
> 
> Trying in Firefox vs MSIE might also be
> 
> /Lars
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