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	<title>Comments on: Has Microsoft Sent Its Former Employees to Conduct Anti-Google Studies?</title>
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	<description>Exploring the reality behind exclusionary deals with Microsoft and their subtle (yet severe) implications</description>
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		<title>By: Mandar</title>
		<link>http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/16/former-softies-anti-google/comment-page-1/#comment-37612</link>
		<dc:creator>Mandar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Although your doubts are valid in this regard and it is your opinion that employees &quot;always&quot; work in the best interest of their former employers could be considered borderline stupendous but no less farcical.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Although your doubts are valid in this regard and it is your opinion that employees &#8220;always&#8221; work in the best interest of their former employers could be considered borderline stupendous but no less farcical.</p>
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		<title>By: Roy Schestowitz</title>
		<link>http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/16/former-softies-anti-google/comment-page-1/#comment-36692</link>
		<dc:creator>Roy Schestowitz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I presume it&#039;s kind of like Alexa then, Windows only as well.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I presume it&#8217;s kind of like Alexa then, Windows only as well.</p>
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		<title>By: twitter</title>
		<link>http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/16/former-softies-anti-google/comment-page-1/#comment-36684</link>
		<dc:creator>twitter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20081114005176&amp;newsLang=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;, their methodology is terrible:

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From May to November 2008, ClickStream Technologies recruited 2,400 U.S. internet users over the age of 18 to complete a survey and install ClickSight®, a patent-pending data collection tool which records click-level user behavior data across all browsers and applications. In addition, ClickSight® reports on dozens of data points relating to the user’s computer configuration. Over 6 months of click data (more than 350 million user actions) was collected by ClickSight® and segmented by each user’s self-reported survey responses that were collected at the time of recruitment, which included basic demographic information.
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So basically, the study tells you a lot about people who respond to spam and don&#039;t mind installing spyware on their computers.  It is no surprise that this select group of computer users also favor M$.  The rest of the world is &lt;a href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&amp;id=1731745&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;moving in a different direction&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20081114005176&amp;newsLang=en" rel="nofollow">this page</a>, their methodology is terrible:</p>
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From May to November 2008, ClickStream Technologies recruited 2,400 U.S. internet users over the age of 18 to complete a survey and install ClickSight®, a patent-pending data collection tool which records click-level user behavior data across all browsers and applications. In addition, ClickSight® reports on dozens of data points relating to the user’s computer configuration. Over 6 months of click data (more than 350 million user actions) was collected by ClickSight® and segmented by each user’s self-reported survey responses that were collected at the time of recruitment, which included basic demographic information.
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<p>So basically, the study tells you a lot about people who respond to spam and don&#8217;t mind installing spyware on their computers.  It is no surprise that this select group of computer users also favor M$.  The rest of the world is <a href="http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&amp;id=1731745" rel="nofollow">moving in a different direction</a>.</p>
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