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Microsoft sponsorship in Google???

7 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/microsoft-sponsorship-in-google.88290/

dheeraj_kumar
dheeraj_kumar Original post #1
May 19, 2008 at 6:18 PM
*img291.imageshack.us/img291/4062/micgooglelc3.jpg

Just checked ma mail and there it was... it was a sponsored link... any comments?
prasad_den
May 19, 2008 at 6:43 PM
AFAIk the ads are based on the content on the inbox, right...?
dheeraj_kumar
May 19, 2008 at 6:48 PM
But it says "sponsored ads" on the right of the box... I didnt include it in the pic but yeah its there. Microsoft sponsoring google? Hell yeah!
prasad_den
May 19, 2008 at 6:53 PM
Well, I thought sponsored ads are also content based... might be wrong..!
iMav
iMav #5
May 19, 2008 at 6:54 PM
nothing new, pretty old, microsoft is not sponsoring google, ms is a google customer for google ads ;)
dheeraj_kumar
May 19, 2008 at 6:56 PM
It seems funny, considering that M$ and G are like yin and yang. Both are opposites, but they exist only as yinyang, the world uses them together :)
kumarmohit
May 19, 2008 at 7:31 PM
In business they are not yin and yang. Its all about profit!