Is Microsoft filtering out from its Live Lookup outcomes those it considers “undesirable” for the company?That;s what one of my tipsters has suggested with some interesting evidence, involving a blog known as “Shipping Seven.”Shipping Seven is penned anonymously by someone who has said s/he is part of the
Windows 7 team at Microsoft. As one might assume,
Office Professional 2007 Key, given Microsoft management;s decision to be less transparent about its future plans, Microsoft is not too fond of the Shipping Seven blog. Company officials have declined to comment in any way on the blog,
Office Professional Plus 2007, as well as on
Windows 7,
Windows 7 Home Premium, the version of Windows expected in 2009 or 2010.Try this. Go to Reside Lookup (www.reside.com) and type in “‘Shipping Seven; blog.” The results? Lots of blogs and news sites talking about the Shipping Seven blog. But no link to the Shipping Seven blog itself (at least not in the first several pages of results I examined).Now try the same query in Google search. The direct link to the Shipping Seven blog is the fourth link. On Yahoo Search , the same search yields as result No. 1 the actual Shipping Seven blog link.Coincidence? Crack down? Microsoft;s statement,
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Office 2010 Key, we don;t editorialize the organic outcomes of search queries.”Seems like somebody needs to tweak an algorithm over on the Live Search team….