Business Get Paid To Use Live Search?
March 18, 2007 by Jason
According to John Battelle’s Search blog, Microsoft is trying out a new incentive program to try and promote Windows Live Search. The program is targeted at enterprise customers who have large numbers of desktop PCs that their employees use for Internet access.
Signing up for the program involves a company telling Microsoft how many PCs it wishes to enroll, then distributing a “Browser Helper Object”—a plugin for Internet Explorer—supplied by Microsoft on said machines. The BHO is used to measure search usage on the PCs and send the results back to Microsoft. The use of Internet Explorer 7 is required for participation in the program. Read More»
