{"id":551802,"date":"2007-03-19T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551802-microsoft-promotes-live-search-service.html"},"modified":"2007-03-19T07:00:34","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T07:00:34","slug":"microsoft-promotes-live-search-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551802-microsoft-promotes-live-search-service.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft promotes Live Search service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">In a move intended to wrest users from rival search engines such as market-dominating Google, Microsoft will give business customers service or training credits based on how much employees use Live Search.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cWe are conducting a trial program through which Microsoft is providing service or training credits to a select number of enterprise customers based on the number of Web search queries conducted by their employees via Live Search,\u201d the Redmond, Washington, company said in a written statement.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cAs search evolves into more of a productivity tool, and revenue sharing becomes more commonplace across the industry, we are engaging in mutually beneficial partnerships such as this and our recently announced a deal with Lenovo to more easily enable customers to choose Live Search.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Microsoft announced a deal this month to pre-install software that makes Live.com the default page in computers made by the China-based Lenovo.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Google has a deal with US computer maker Dell to preload its search engine tool bar on that company&#8217;s machines.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Microsoft would not disclose how the credits are calculated, saying it depended on the number of personal computers enrolled in the program and the amount of Live Search use.<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has begun offering large businesses rewards if they have employees scout the Internet with the software giant&#8217;s Live Search service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}