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Microsoft Runs Linux Smear Campaign

Posted by amazingkip on · 23 comments
linuxhow2.com; By David Szyszka
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Microsoft is going out of their way to buy up keyword searches on Google. They've bought up the keyword "Linux" so that an erroneous website claiming that Windows Server 2008 is superior to Linux Servers pops up first. The site doesn't go on to backup this claim with any real evidence; in fact, it mostly argues that Windows Server 2008 is better than previous Windows Servers.

[I tried to re-create what the author did but the results page errors out on me. - Scott]

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Comments (23)

OK...Somebody needs to take their meds.

If you get worked up every time Microsoft runs an advertising campaign unkind to Linux you will never get any sleep.

Relax.

People expect companies to advertise. People take advertsing with a grain of salt. People who don't should not reproduce, and probably have more to worry about in their lives than Linux.
> People take advertsing with a grain of salt.

Quite a bit more than a grain, at least in my case.

It would be an interesting study if performed, but I think you could make a convincing case that advertising no longer works on the majority of the people in the US. Growing up with radio and television ads seems to greatly reduce their effectiveness in later life.
"People take advertsing with a grain of salt. People who don't should not reproduce, ..."

Cleary you are out of touch with the "REAL" world. ;-)

Apple runs anti Microsoft smear campaign

Try this:

In Google, type 'windows 2008 is superior to linux' without quotation marks. My first result (google redirects me to google.nl though) is:

OSWeekly.com - Why Mac OS X Is Superior to Linux and Windows
And when I did it I got

2008: Not the year of the Linux desktop (iTWire) [LWN.net]
LOL, this thread is the number one now!! :^)
Well, then I guess Windows 2008 just isn't superior to Linux anyway. If it was true, Google should have found the resources proving it, not?

It almost makes me want to abuse our Google rating by typing "Discover how FooBar, Europe's largest retailer found Red Hat Linux has a 40% lower TCO than Microsoft Windows Server 2008" here for more than hundred times, and then see what Google finds for me tomorrow if I type the same again.
Quoting:windows 2008 is superior to linux


That's funny, this thread is the top result.
Quoting:windows 2008 is superior to linux
Same here

You see what you've done now hkwint! :)

> Same here

Google obviously gives quite a bit of weight to LXer comments and indexes them quickly.
Yeah, darnit, can't make jokes at this forum folks, Google takes us serious!
Oh, the responsibility!!
Just remember to click the link as well. Just shows you how easily google can be gamed, pathetic isn't it.
I just looked at the LXer statistics, and "Windows 2008 is superior to Linux" is now one of the most important Google searches linking to LXer. Unbelievable Google has a higher market value on the stock market than IBM in my opinion, but again, who am I?
Considering the statement made by the phrase being linked by Google, someone really ought to start using the phrase "Linux is superior to Windows 2008". After all, we really want Google to index "Linux is superior to Windows 2008" as much or more than the other phrase. And furthermore, if someone stumbles upon the other phrase, then they may search for "Linux is superior to Windows 2008" as well. And, if they do, we don't want "Linux is superior to Windows 2008" lacking on this thread. Do we?

Oh, as an aside, I actually believe that Linux is superior to Windows 2008.
> I actually believe that Linux is superior to Windows 2008.

Gee, you think. :)

Added:

And better than Vista, and XP, and 2000, and ME, and 98SE, and 98, and 95, and 3.1, etc.
...and in other news, french resistance runs anti-nazi smear campaign.
Heh.
Quoting:Your search - "Linux is superior to Windows 2008" - did not match any documents.
"Apple runs anti Microsoft smear campaign"

Yes, and remember who also owns Apple stock? Anyone? Bueler? Bueler?
Quoting:...and in other news, french resistance runs anti-nazi smear campaign.


Wow. I knew some people in France where old fashioned, but are they that behind in France?

Quoting:Your search - "Linux is superior to Windows 2008" - did not match any documents.


Well, my Google search "Linux is superior to Windows 2008" did match documents. Actually, it links back to this LXer thread, probably because anyone over here mentioned "Linux is superior to Windows 2008". You can try the Google search. Just Google for "Linux is superior to Windows, or click the link; [url=http://www.google.com/search?q="Linux is superior to Windows 2008"]http://www.google.com/search?q="Linux is superior to Windows...[/url] . You should find the first result "Linux is superior to Windows 2008" points back to this thread. Now, you wouldn't believe "Linux is superior to Windows 2008", would you? But if Google has results for it, Linux has to be superior to Windows 2008". And if it has to be, it probably is. Or in other words, "Linux is superior to Windows 2008".



Quoting: Wow. I knew some people in France where old fashioned, but are they that behind in France?
This was in the 1940s...
Linux Superior m$ Posterior
CP - LOL! You have a gift for a world of meaning in very few words...

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