Microsoft's Desperate attempts too woo away Linux users!
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NucleusKore
TheSaint
That ad would be misleading to a novice.
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Cyrus_the_virus
Unmountable Boot Volume
And most who come in search of linux are novices in the same.NucleusKore said:
The point I made is exactly what you are saying "misleading". I and you know that it doesn't make a difference to us, but to a novice who is easy pray it certainly is misleading. This is the point that I have been making all along while one Fanboy tries to blame it on Google *gigasmilies.googlepages.com/35.gif
And if it's just a bunch of guys who are just running some startup trying to get into the market, then it's understandable if they make mistake like this and mislead people. Like the fake Nike shoes being sold by misleading. But this is a multi-billion corporation that we are talking about. They've been through so much of legal issues and it seems like either they dont' have somebody to advise them, or the entire company has decided to do this purposefully coz they know that no different companies can sue them for this kind of misleading information. They are exploiting the situation about multi community maintained Open source software. Since "Linux" is not owned by a particular company!
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iMav
The Devil's Advocate
i decided to not to post but now that u have again made some specifics i would like to ask specifically:
could some 1 tell me what is mis-leading in the ad
or the link
are the freakin novices u talk of so bloody dumb that they dont know the difference between MS and linux that once following the link they will turn to Windows i mean whats mis-leading doesnt ur browser give u a back button
and if they are so dumb then trust me they are un-fit for linux
and could define mistake - i dont think its a mistake whats the mistake; MS guys stratigically chose keywords
could some 1 tell me what is mis-leading in the ad
or the linkare the freakin novices u talk of so bloody dumb that they dont know the difference between MS and linux that once following the link they will turn to Windows
i mean whats mis-leading doesnt ur browser give u a back buttonand if they are so dumb then trust me they are un-fit for linux
and could define mistake - i dont think its a mistake whats the mistake; MS guys stratigically chose keywords
NucleusKore
TheSaint
Search for linux and get windows, that's misleading enough.
iMav
The Devil's Advocate
ur talking as if there are some mis-leading facts and havnt u ever come across a search result ever in ur life where u havent found something u wantedNucleusKore; cyrus & din & even infra for that matter said:
its just a freaking page that it takes u to is it so bloody damn hard for u to click back to go back ..... can u realise by reading whats on the page that its not what ur looking for
do a random search on google - does every search result show u what u want and what do u do when u dont find what u want ?.... i dont think u start cursing the other web sites for taking u to a different page u simply click back and choose another search result ....
just creating a hoopla ha coz ms has advertised is something that is desperate not the ad that is desperate
Garbage
God of Mistakes...
iMav, I think u have lot of spare time to click on the link... read the whole page... and after finding, it's not what u r looking for, then click BACK on ur IE.. search another site... again read.... back... search another...iMav said:ur talking as if there are some mis-leading facts and havnt u ever come across a search result ever in ur life where u havent found something u wanted
its just a freaking page that it takes u to is it so bloody damn hard for u to click back to go back ..... can u realise by reading whats on the page that its not what ur looking for
do a random search on google - does every search result show u what u want and what do u do when u dont find what u want ?.... i dont think u start cursing the other web sites for taking u to a different page u simply click back and choose another search result ....
just creating a hoopla ha coz ms has advertised is something that is desperate not the ad that is desperate
Is it ?? :X
lywyre
Cyborg Agent
Cyrus_the_virus said:
Yup. The seach term DID NOT CONTAIN any word relating to Microsoft Servers. Just Forthcoming linux versions I don't see any Microsoft server keywords except versions. Atleast the title should have been different like Microsoft Server Versions. Beat that.
iMav
The Devil's Advocate
shirish_nagar said:
now thats the dumbest statement iv read in some long time ..... have u ever used any internet search engine 1 does not need to go thru the entire page u cracked me up @lywyre: thats for google o explain and not MS something iv been saying for some time ...
din
Tribal Boy
Oh no, guys, please, please do not try that !!shirish_nagar said:
We can wake up someone if hes sleeping, but it is impossible to 'wake up' someone who pretend hes sleeping !!!
GX, we need not be win / lin / google boys to know how google adwords works (I mean not the internals, but the process)gx_saurav said:
Small clarification for those who are still confused
The title you see in the google adwords / sponsored links / sponsored search results are set by the advertiser. And that is not fixed by google.
Read the above sentence again and decide whether to blame google for misleading titles in ads. Should we blame google for the misleading title or the advertiser ? ? ?
Or we should still ask google to explain the reason for 'misleading title'
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iMav
The Devil's Advocate
so go sue google for allowing MS to use those words .... MS chose the words google gave it to them
wtf is wrong whit u man - misleading misleading misleading - they are only leading u to a page cant u click back ....
as said it is a strategically chosen key word - u should actually be blaming google for allowing MS to use the words; MS asked for the words google gave it to them - if its available y hnot take it and what is mis-leading cant u click back dont u know what is MS and what is Linux dont ur so called novices know the difference between MS and linux ... its a damn ad that goes to a page if thats not what u want click back .... havnt u ever in all ur life come across a search result which is something that u are not looking for
man is ur rationality gone for a xmas vaccation
wtf is wrong whit u man - misleading misleading misleading - they are only leading u to a page cant u click back ....
as said it is a strategically chosen key word - u should actually be blaming google for allowing MS to use the words; MS asked for the words google gave it to them - if its available y hnot take it and what is mis-leading cant u click back dont u know what is MS and what is Linux dont ur so called novices know the difference between MS and linux ... its a damn ad that goes to a page if thats not what u want click back .... havnt u ever in all ur life come across a search result which is something that u are not looking for
man is ur rationality gone for a xmas vaccation
MetalheadGautham
AFK
@shantanu:
1. I said that GFS is good on google servers. We all know how fast google search is, don't we?
2. What about EXT3? you conviniently forgot it
3. sorry, didn't read that TOS about affirmative posts.
1. I said that GFS is good on google servers. We all know how fast google search is, don't we?
2. What about EXT3? you conviniently forgot it
3. sorry, didn't read that TOS about affirmative posts.
shantanu
Technomancer
fine , i am comparing a USER FS not **server FS , i only wanted to ask that whether Google FS is publicly used by people ? if no , then whats the point in comparing it with NTFS. M$ is also working on EXFAT and some other FS. ( just to remind, if you guys dont know or forgot.)
** NTFS is used in both PC and servers, but GFS is used only in Google servers, its like comparing your Tread mill with a HONDA Fireblade .
anything so less used and server specefic, can always be better because it is not widely used and bugs are also limited and confidential.. who knows what goes on inside google.. it wont be ever leaked out..
** NTFS is used in both PC and servers, but GFS is used only in Google servers, its like comparing your Tread mill with a HONDA Fireblade .
anything so less used and server specefic, can always be better because it is not widely used and bugs are also limited and confidential.. who knows what goes on inside google.. it wont be ever leaked out..
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Cyrus_the_virus
Unmountable Boot Volume
*gigasmilies.googlepages.com/24.gif *gigasmilies.googlepages.com/24.gif *gigasmilies.googlepages.com/24.gifiMav said:so go sue google for allowing MS to use those words .... MS chose the words google gave it to them
Stupidity at it's best. Please don't say cr@p when you really have no idea how google adwords works..
Exactly, it's not just about the search. It's about the title. It's misleading in a way that it suggest you that the link gives you more information about Linux while they are just promoting their product and showing linux is bad at the cost of the Linux title.lywyre said:
Winboys, get this into your head. We are not talking about how google search works. It's about the title of the advert which also relates to the search words used. There is no problem in a windows ad coming up in a serch result based on the keywords used in the search, but the problem here is that the advert is disguising itself to be some useful information about Linux while it's absolutely the other way round. That is what is misleading. Not the search result Winboys! *gigasmilies.googlepages.com/30.gif
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