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Microsoft is offering businesses money to not use Google
Word of the program first came from John Battelle’s Searchblog, which features description and pictures outlining Microsoft’s “Service Credits for Web Search.” As quoted in the entry, Microsoft is pushing its plan with the following overview:
Employees search the web daily with tools from Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo. OEMs and web sites are already earning credits based on searches that their users bring. Now, your organization can earn credits for Microsoft web searches and redeem them for Microsoft or preferred partner deployment and training services. More searches earns more credits towards the services you value.
A couple of examples of service credit show that a company with 10,000 enrolled PCs could earn credit of $120,000, with larger companies able to earn even more.
*images.dailytech.com/nimage/4205_large_msft%20live%20credit%202.jpg
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Word of the program first came from John Battelle’s Searchblog, which features description and pictures outlining Microsoft’s “Service Credits for Web Search.” As quoted in the entry, Microsoft is pushing its plan with the following overview:
Employees search the web daily with tools from Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo. OEMs and web sites are already earning credits based on searches that their users bring. Now, your organization can earn credits for Microsoft web searches and redeem them for Microsoft or preferred partner deployment and training services. More searches earns more credits towards the services you value.
A couple of examples of service credit show that a company with 10,000 enrolled PCs could earn credit of $120,000, with larger companies able to earn even more.
*images.dailytech.com/nimage/4205_large_msft%20live%20credit%202.jpg
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