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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Buying Friends and Influencing People?

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So is this the way Microsoft intends to try to best Google?

Pay consumers to search? Pay computer companies to put its search in their hardware?

Ah, Dale Carnegie’s big-bag-of-money tactic!

What’s next? Giving out dollars in Internet cafes for folks to stop using Google’s simple box?

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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