Microsoft ditches Live Search product upload tool Microsoft has ditched its Live Search Product Upload tool as part of its latest shake-up of its less-than-popular web search service. The firm confirmed to users that the tool, which was used by retailers to get their products into Microsoft’s search database, had been discontinued late last week. "Thank you for your interest …
...is for them to ditch Live Search altogether.
MS exec "We've got more money than God and what the world needs now is a new search engine! Name a successful search engine with global brand identity."
MS minion "Google?"
MS exec "Apart from that one."
MS minion "Yahoo!?."
MS exec "And that one."
MS minion "...err..."
MS exec "See! I'm right. A gap in the market!" (Dreams of rising stock options and the keys to the executive toilets.)
MS Exec 1: Let's use our strategy of nicking someone elses ideas, buying any small competitors they have and then muscling them out of the market.
MS Exec 2: Great idea. I hear that there is a lot of money in search engines.
...
some time later
...
MS Exec 1: Our product is pants compared to the competitors what do we do.
MS Exec 2: Historically we would release it anyway. Or we could try buying out the competition.
MS Exec 1: We can't afford to buy Google and Yahoo.
MS Exec 2: This is a free product! We can't con people into buying it!
MS Exec 1: Let's withdraw it then.
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