> > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > -- Alex Fisher Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project OpenOffice.org Marketing Community Contact Australia/New Zealand http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/
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