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It is trailing Google in market share for online searches, email programs and smartphone operating systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike most advertising campaigns, which contrast the strengths of one product with the weaknesses of another, the Scroogled ads are almost entirely devoted to blasting Google's products and say little about Microsoft's Bing search engine, its Outlook email or Windows Phones.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The previous Scroogled campaign didn't appear to make a dent in Google's market share for any of these products. But opinion polls have apparently convinced Microsoft that it can open a crack of mistrust in the bond between Google and its users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An earlier Roper Center for Public Opinion Research poll convinced the company that email users would be unhappy if they knew Google scans messages for keywords it can use to target ads. On Monday Microsoft released a \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/scroogled/archive/2013/04/05/roper-poll-shows-large-majority-of-americans-strongly-disapprove-of-app-stores-sharing-personal-information-with-app-makers.aspx\">new Roper poll \u003c/a>showing that 91 percent of Americans disapprove of app stores sharing personal information with app makers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Sullivan said Microsoft was convinced the ads were working because \"nearly 4 million people visited the Scroogled site in February during the Gmail campaign, and more than 115,000 people signed a petition asking Google to stop reading their email.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surveys of the people visiting the Scroogled site show that their perceptions of Google were becoming more negative and their perceptions of Microsoft's Outlook and Bing were becoming more positive, said Sullivan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft's renewal of the campaign suggests it's taking a long-term perspective of its struggle with Google, said Jonathan Weber, an online advertising executive at \u003ca href=\"http://www.lunametrics.com/\" target=\"_blank\">LunaMetrics\u003c/a> digital marking firm in Pittsburgh. \"These are all sort of long battles. You don't easily change people's habits.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft is also attacking on the legal front. \u003ca href=\"http://www.fairsearch.org/mobile/fairsearch-announces-complaint-in-eu-on-googles-anti-competitive-mobile-strategy/\">FairSearch.org\u003c/a>, a group of high-tech companies \u003ca href=\"http://business.time.com/2013/04/09/googles-android-target-of-new-antitrust-complaint/\">reportedly\u003c/a> led by Microsoft, has complained to the European Commission that Android phone makers are required to give Google apps foremost positions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Android phone makers who want to include must-have Google apps such as Maps, YouTube or Play are required to pre-load an entire suite of Google mobile services and to give them prominent default placement on the phone, the complaint says. This disadvantages other providers, and puts Google’s Android in control of consumer data on a majority of smartphones shipped today.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In response to our query, Google released this statement: \"Google Wallet shares the information needed to process transactions and maintain accounts, and this is clearly stated in the Google Wallet\u003ca href=\"https://wallet.google.com/files/privacy.html?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\"> Privacy Notice.\u003c/a>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company did not respond to queries about the positioning it requires for its apps on Android phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft also declined to make a spokesperson available for an telephone interview or to answer questions about the extent of the new campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In the meantime, here is some reporting about the clash of internet titans from Michael Liedtke of The Associated Press:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft is skewering Google again with scathing ads that say as much about the dramatic shift in the technology industry's competitive landscape as they do about the animosity between the two rivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The missive that began Tuesday marks the third phase in a 5-month-old marketing campaign that Microsoft Corp. derisively calls \"Scroogled.\" The ads, which have appeared online, on television and in print, depict Google as a duplicitous company more interested in increasing profits and power than protecting people's privacy and providing unbiased search results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, Microsoft is vilifying Google Inc. for sharing some of the personal information that it gathers about people who buy applications designed to run on smartphones and tablet computers powered by Google's Android software. Earlier ads have skewered Google's long-running practice of electronically scanning the contents of people's Gmail accounts to help sell ads and attacked a recently introduced policy that requires retailers to pay to appear in the shopping section of Google's dominant search engine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think we have a better alternative that doesn't do these kinds of nefarious things,\" said Greg Sullivan, Microsoft's senior manager for Windows Phone, the business taking aim at Google's distribution of personal information about buyers of Android apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft's advertising barbs could potentially backfire. Even as they help draw attention to Google practices that may prod some consumers to try different services, they also serve as a reminder of Microsoft's mostly futile — and costly — attempts to trump its rival with more compelling technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's always the underdog that does negative advertising like this, and there is no doubt that Microsoft is now the underdog,\" said Jonathan Weber, who has been following Microsoft's \"Scroogled\" campaign at search consulting firm LunaMetrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the flip side, Google has evolved from an endearing Internet startup to an imposing giant running Web and mobile services that vacuum intimate details about people's lives. Despite repeated management assurances about respecting personal privacy, Google has experienced several lapses that have resulted in regulatory fines, settlements and scorn around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond privacy, Google has been the subject of complaints that its practices are anti-competitive. On Tuesday, a group of companies led by Microsoft said it has asked European authorities to investigate whether Google is acting unfairly by giving away its Android operating system to mobile device manufacturers on the condition that Google's own apps, such as YouTube and Google Maps, are installed and prominently displayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft's latest ads revolve around concerns already raised by privacy watchdogs. Critics argue that Google hasn't adequately disclosed that customers' names, email addresses and neighborhood locations are routinely sent to the makers of apps sold in Google's online Play store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one group, Consumer Watchdog, has complained to the Federal Trade Commission that Google's apps practices represent an \"egregious privacy violation.\" Citing agency policy, FTC spokesman Jay Mayfield declined to comment on whether the complaint has triggered a formal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google says it shares a limited amount of personal information about customers to ensure they get better service and faster responses if any problems arise. The company says the practice is allowed under its terms of service — a document that most people rarely read in its entirety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft says it doesn't pass along personal details about customers buying apps for devices running its Windows Phone software. But there aren't as many Windows Phone users or apps for that system as there are for Android.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notion of Microsoft being well behind Google once seemed inconceivable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade ago, Microsoft was the world's most powerful technology company, with its Windows operating system and Office productivity software pervasive on personal computers. Microsoft's dominance had grown so extensive that U.S. and European antitrust regulators spent years trying to rein in the Redmond, Wash., software company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Google was growing rapidly at the time, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and other skeptics dismissed the company as a \"one-trick pony\" that hadn't proven adept at doing anything besides searching the Web and selling ads next to the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google, which is based in Mountain View, has since morphed into a multifaceted juggernaut relentlessly trying to muscle into new markets. The company now runs the world's most watched online video service in YouTube, the largest email service in Gmail and the most widely used operating system for mobile devices in Android. All of those services provide more opportunities to show the ads that generate the bulk of Google's revenue. Google is now the company facing the scrutiny of regulators — and Microsoft has been active in making those complaints, including the one announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Google is certainly the biggest challenge that Microsoft has ever had to deal with,\" said Michael Cusumano, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and author of several books about Microsoft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft has tried to thwart Google by investing heavily in online services, to little avail. Since Google went public in August 2004, Microsoft's online division has accumulated more than $17.5 billion in operating losses. The losses include an accounting charge of more than $6 billion for Microsoft's acquisition of aQuantive, an online advertising service that didn't pan out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google, meanwhile, has been steadily increasing profits and share of the Internet search market. Google processes about two out of every three search requests in the United States and handles an even larger percentage of queries in many parts of Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Microsoft has remained profitable companywide, the Windows franchise that provides its financial backbone has been weakening as a growing preference for smartphones and tablet computers undercuts sales of desktop and laptop computers. Besides doing damage with Android, Google is also trying to dent Microsoft by selling a less expensive, Internet-based alternative to Microsoft's Office suite. Google also is pushing a laptop operating system built on its popular Chrome Web browser in an attempt to divert even more sales away from Windows machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft has countered with a dramatic overhaul of the Windows operating system, one designed to bring tablet features such as touch screens to desktops and laptops. But Windows 8 has gotten off to a tepid start since its October release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changing fortunes of Microsoft and Google have been reflected in the stock market's appraisal of the two companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google's market value has soared from nearly $25 billion at the time of its initial public offering to $255 billion. Microsoft's market value has fallen by about 20 percent during the same period, declining from nearly $300 billion at the time of Google's IPO to $239 billion today. Apple Inc., a rival of both Google and Microsoft, is the only technology company worth more than Google, with a market value hovering around $400 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In morning trading Tuesday, after the latest campaign kicked off, Microsoft's stock gained 36 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $28.95, while Google's increased $6.85, or nearly 1 percent, to $781.70.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft developed its anti-Google ad campaigns shortly after hiring former political operative Mark Penn in August as a corporate strategist who reports directly to Ballmer. Penn is best known as a former pollster for President Bill Clinton and a campaign strategist for Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful bid for president in 2008. Penn left his job as CEO of public relations firm Burson-Marsteller to help Microsoft generate more usage of its Bing search engine and other online services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft isn't saying how much it is spending on these ad campaigns beyond saying the amount will run in the \"multimillions\" of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although there isn't any evidence that the ads have hurt Google yet, Sullivan said Microsoft is pleased with the response. The company says about 117,000 people have signed Microsoft's online petition protesting Gmail's ad-driving scanning of content. That's a sliver of the more than 425 million Gmail accounts worldwide. Microsoft says about 4 million people have visited Scroogled.com, the website that serves as the hub of the company's anti-Google screed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the attack ads are something new for Microsoft, denigrating the competition isn't. Most notably, Microsoft tried to undermine Web browser pioneer Netscape Communications beginning in the mid-1990s. Most of that sniping remained behind the scenes until a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into Microsoft's business practices exposed the cutthroat tactics deployed to overcome Netscape's early lead in the Web browser market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that history, Microsoft's marketing assault on Google isn't that surprising, said Cusumano, who has been following the company for 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nothing is below Microsoft,\" Cusumano said. \"They have been playing dirty for a long time. In this instance, they probably sincerely believe this can give them a little marketing edge and help them capitalize on the growing discomfort with the size and influence of Google.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new ads, which Microsoft \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/scroogled/archive/2013/04/09/don-t-get-scroogled-by-google-s-app-store.aspx\">announced on Tuesday\u003c/a>, include \u003ca href=\"http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/watch-how-you-get-scroogled-by-the-google-app-store/1vq7oscgu?from=email&cpkey=c9d2be13-5da4-4a28-91f9-6afee5d856b4%257c%257c%257c%257c\">television spots\u003c/a> as well as updating of the Scroogled \u003ca href=\"http://www.scroogled.com/\">website\u003c/a>. And at the same time that it lambasts its rival in the court of public opinion, it is also seeking remedies in actual legal courts in Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a world bombarded with advertising, the campaign stands out for a couple of reasons: its sheer negativity, and what it says about who is winning in the struggle between two of the world's digital titans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previous ads, launched around Thanksgiving 2012, focused on privacy issues in Google's Gmail email system and on the influence of paid advertising in Google Shopping. The new ads say that users should be concerned about using Android devices because they disclose personal data to the makers of apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is an example:\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://hub.video.msn.com/embed/5ca0a386-f0c2-4a4f-bdea-bd971e54a3b0/?vars=bWt0PWVuLXVzJmNvbmZpZ0NzaWQ9TVNOVmlkZW8mbGlua292ZXJyaWRlMj1odHRwJTNBJTJGJTJGd3d3LmJpbmcuY29tJTJGdmlkZW9zJTNGbWt0JTNEZW4tdXMlMjZ2aWQlM0QlN0IwJTdEJTI2ZnJvbSUzRCZmcj1zaGFyZWVtYmVkLXN5bmRpY2F0aW9uJnN5bmRpY2F0aW9uPXRhZyZjb25maWdOYW1lPXN5bmRpY2F0aW9ucGxheWVyJmxpbmtiYWNrPWh0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cuYmluZy5jb20lMkZ2aWRlb3M%3D\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some marketing experts have interpreted the ads as a sign of desperation on Microsoft's part. It is trailing Google in market share for online searches, email programs and smartphone operating systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike most advertising campaigns, which contrast the strengths of one product with the weaknesses of another, the Scroogled ads are almost entirely devoted to blasting Google's products and say little about Microsoft's Bing search engine, its Outlook email or Windows Phones.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The previous Scroogled campaign didn't appear to make a dent in Google's market share for any of these products. But opinion polls have apparently convinced Microsoft that it can open a crack of mistrust in the bond between Google and its users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An earlier Roper Center for Public Opinion Research poll convinced the company that email users would be unhappy if they knew Google scans messages for keywords it can use to target ads. On Monday Microsoft released a \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/b/scroogled/archive/2013/04/05/roper-poll-shows-large-majority-of-americans-strongly-disapprove-of-app-stores-sharing-personal-information-with-app-makers.aspx\">new Roper poll \u003c/a>showing that 91 percent of Americans disapprove of app stores sharing personal information with app makers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Sullivan said Microsoft was convinced the ads were working because \"nearly 4 million people visited the Scroogled site in February during the Gmail campaign, and more than 115,000 people signed a petition asking Google to stop reading their email.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surveys of the people visiting the Scroogled site show that their perceptions of Google were becoming more negative and their perceptions of Microsoft's Outlook and Bing were becoming more positive, said Sullivan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft's renewal of the campaign suggests it's taking a long-term perspective of its struggle with Google, said Jonathan Weber, an online advertising executive at \u003ca href=\"http://www.lunametrics.com/\" target=\"_blank\">LunaMetrics\u003c/a> digital marking firm in Pittsburgh. \"These are all sort of long battles. You don't easily change people's habits.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft is also attacking on the legal front. \u003ca href=\"http://www.fairsearch.org/mobile/fairsearch-announces-complaint-in-eu-on-googles-anti-competitive-mobile-strategy/\">FairSearch.org\u003c/a>, a group of high-tech companies \u003ca href=\"http://business.time.com/2013/04/09/googles-android-target-of-new-antitrust-complaint/\">reportedly\u003c/a> led by Microsoft, has complained to the European Commission that Android phone makers are required to give Google apps foremost positions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Android phone makers who want to include must-have Google apps such as Maps, YouTube or Play are required to pre-load an entire suite of Google mobile services and to give them prominent default placement on the phone, the complaint says. This disadvantages other providers, and puts Google’s Android in control of consumer data on a majority of smartphones shipped today.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In response to our query, Google released this statement: \"Google Wallet shares the information needed to process transactions and maintain accounts, and this is clearly stated in the Google Wallet\u003ca href=\"https://wallet.google.com/files/privacy.html?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\"> Privacy Notice.\u003c/a>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company did not respond to queries about the positioning it requires for its apps on Android phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft also declined to make a spokesperson available for an telephone interview or to answer questions about the extent of the new campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In the meantime, here is some reporting about the clash of internet titans from Michael Liedtke of The Associated Press:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft is skewering Google again with scathing ads that say as much about the dramatic shift in the technology industry's competitive landscape as they do about the animosity between the two rivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The missive that began Tuesday marks the third phase in a 5-month-old marketing campaign that Microsoft Corp. derisively calls \"Scroogled.\" The ads, which have appeared online, on television and in print, depict Google as a duplicitous company more interested in increasing profits and power than protecting people's privacy and providing unbiased search results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, Microsoft is vilifying Google Inc. for sharing some of the personal information that it gathers about people who buy applications designed to run on smartphones and tablet computers powered by Google's Android software. Earlier ads have skewered Google's long-running practice of electronically scanning the contents of people's Gmail accounts to help sell ads and attacked a recently introduced policy that requires retailers to pay to appear in the shopping section of Google's dominant search engine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think we have a better alternative that doesn't do these kinds of nefarious things,\" said Greg Sullivan, Microsoft's senior manager for Windows Phone, the business taking aim at Google's distribution of personal information about buyers of Android apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft's advertising barbs could potentially backfire. Even as they help draw attention to Google practices that may prod some consumers to try different services, they also serve as a reminder of Microsoft's mostly futile — and costly — attempts to trump its rival with more compelling technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's always the underdog that does negative advertising like this, and there is no doubt that Microsoft is now the underdog,\" said Jonathan Weber, who has been following Microsoft's \"Scroogled\" campaign at search consulting firm LunaMetrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the flip side, Google has evolved from an endearing Internet startup to an imposing giant running Web and mobile services that vacuum intimate details about people's lives. Despite repeated management assurances about respecting personal privacy, Google has experienced several lapses that have resulted in regulatory fines, settlements and scorn around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond privacy, Google has been the subject of complaints that its practices are anti-competitive. On Tuesday, a group of companies led by Microsoft said it has asked European authorities to investigate whether Google is acting unfairly by giving away its Android operating system to mobile device manufacturers on the condition that Google's own apps, such as YouTube and Google Maps, are installed and prominently displayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft's latest ads revolve around concerns already raised by privacy watchdogs. Critics argue that Google hasn't adequately disclosed that customers' names, email addresses and neighborhood locations are routinely sent to the makers of apps sold in Google's online Play store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one group, Consumer Watchdog, has complained to the Federal Trade Commission that Google's apps practices represent an \"egregious privacy violation.\" Citing agency policy, FTC spokesman Jay Mayfield declined to comment on whether the complaint has triggered a formal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google says it shares a limited amount of personal information about customers to ensure they get better service and faster responses if any problems arise. The company says the practice is allowed under its terms of service — a document that most people rarely read in its entirety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft says it doesn't pass along personal details about customers buying apps for devices running its Windows Phone software. But there aren't as many Windows Phone users or apps for that system as there are for Android.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notion of Microsoft being well behind Google once seemed inconceivable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade ago, Microsoft was the world's most powerful technology company, with its Windows operating system and Office productivity software pervasive on personal computers. Microsoft's dominance had grown so extensive that U.S. and European antitrust regulators spent years trying to rein in the Redmond, Wash., software company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Google was growing rapidly at the time, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and other skeptics dismissed the company as a \"one-trick pony\" that hadn't proven adept at doing anything besides searching the Web and selling ads next to the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google, which is based in Mountain View, has since morphed into a multifaceted juggernaut relentlessly trying to muscle into new markets. The company now runs the world's most watched online video service in YouTube, the largest email service in Gmail and the most widely used operating system for mobile devices in Android. All of those services provide more opportunities to show the ads that generate the bulk of Google's revenue. Google is now the company facing the scrutiny of regulators — and Microsoft has been active in making those complaints, including the one announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Google is certainly the biggest challenge that Microsoft has ever had to deal with,\" said Michael Cusumano, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and author of several books about Microsoft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft has tried to thwart Google by investing heavily in online services, to little avail. Since Google went public in August 2004, Microsoft's online division has accumulated more than $17.5 billion in operating losses. The losses include an accounting charge of more than $6 billion for Microsoft's acquisition of aQuantive, an online advertising service that didn't pan out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google, meanwhile, has been steadily increasing profits and share of the Internet search market. Google processes about two out of every three search requests in the United States and handles an even larger percentage of queries in many parts of Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Microsoft has remained profitable companywide, the Windows franchise that provides its financial backbone has been weakening as a growing preference for smartphones and tablet computers undercuts sales of desktop and laptop computers. Besides doing damage with Android, Google is also trying to dent Microsoft by selling a less expensive, Internet-based alternative to Microsoft's Office suite. Google also is pushing a laptop operating system built on its popular Chrome Web browser in an attempt to divert even more sales away from Windows machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft has countered with a dramatic overhaul of the Windows operating system, one designed to bring tablet features such as touch screens to desktops and laptops. But Windows 8 has gotten off to a tepid start since its October release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changing fortunes of Microsoft and Google have been reflected in the stock market's appraisal of the two companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google's market value has soared from nearly $25 billion at the time of its initial public offering to $255 billion. Microsoft's market value has fallen by about 20 percent during the same period, declining from nearly $300 billion at the time of Google's IPO to $239 billion today. Apple Inc., a rival of both Google and Microsoft, is the only technology company worth more than Google, with a market value hovering around $400 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In morning trading Tuesday, after the latest campaign kicked off, Microsoft's stock gained 36 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $28.95, while Google's increased $6.85, or nearly 1 percent, to $781.70.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft developed its anti-Google ad campaigns shortly after hiring former political operative Mark Penn in August as a corporate strategist who reports directly to Ballmer. Penn is best known as a former pollster for President Bill Clinton and a campaign strategist for Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful bid for president in 2008. Penn left his job as CEO of public relations firm Burson-Marsteller to help Microsoft generate more usage of its Bing search engine and other online services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft isn't saying how much it is spending on these ad campaigns beyond saying the amount will run in the \"multimillions\" of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although there isn't any evidence that the ads have hurt Google yet, Sullivan said Microsoft is pleased with the response. The company says about 117,000 people have signed Microsoft's online petition protesting Gmail's ad-driving scanning of content. That's a sliver of the more than 425 million Gmail accounts worldwide. Microsoft says about 4 million people have visited Scroogled.com, the website that serves as the hub of the company's anti-Google screed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the attack ads are something new for Microsoft, denigrating the competition isn't. Most notably, Microsoft tried to undermine Web browser pioneer Netscape Communications beginning in the mid-1990s. Most of that sniping remained behind the scenes until a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into Microsoft's business practices exposed the cutthroat tactics deployed to overcome Netscape's early lead in the Web browser market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that history, Microsoft's marketing assault on Google isn't that surprising, said Cusumano, who has been following the company for 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Can nothing stop Google?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thanksgiving, Microsoft launched attack ads against the Internet giant that were so ferocious they made headlines in advertising and technology publications alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft spokespeople are still warning anyone who will listen that Google is reading its users' email and delivering biased results in Google Shopping. But it has stopped buying the controversial Scroogled ads on television, in newspapers, and social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That part is about finished,\" Stefan Weitz, Microsoft senior director of online services, said on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By one measure, the ads succeeded. Over 110,000 people signed Microsoft's petition on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thepetitionsite.com/997/086/864/tell-google-to-stop-going-through-your-email-to-sell-ads/\">Care2 petition site\u003c/a> to \"Tell Google to stop going through your email to sell ads.\" Microsoft originally set a goal of 25,000 names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if Microsoft hoped its campaign would win it a greater share of the market for Internet search or webmail, it looks like a pretty big flop. Data from market research suggests that users of Google search and Gmail shrugged off the onslaught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a little early to say, but it appears to be backfiring,\" said Jonathan Weber, an online advertising executive at \u003ca href=\"http://www.lunametrics.com/\" target=\"_blank\">LunaMetrics\u003c/a> digital marking firm in Pittsburgh.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ads, still \u003ca href=\"http://www.scroogled.com/\">available online,\u003c/a> Microsoft makes two claims about its competitor. First, it charges that Google scans Gmail messages, looking for keywords it can use to serve up relevant advertising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's an example of the first claim:\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://hub.video.msn.com/embed/daf3e70b-2c71-4ba2-b792-f975eadbc2e0/?vars=bGlua292ZXJyaWRlMj1odHRwJTNBJTJGJTJGd3d3LmJpbmcuY29tJTJGdmlkZW9zJTNGbWt0JTNEZW4tdXMlMjZ2aWQlM0QlN0IwJTdEJTI2ZnJvbSUzRCZmcj1zaGFyZWVtYmVkLXN5bmRpY2F0aW9uJnN5bmRpY2F0aW9uPXRhZyZjb25maWdOYW1lPXN5bmRpY2F0aW9ucGxheWVyJmxpbmtiYWNrPWh0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cuYmluZy5jb20lMkZ2aWRlb3MmbWt0PWVuLXVzJmNvbmZpZ0NzaWQ9TVNOVmlkZW8%3D\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, it says that the results of searches in Google Shopping are paid advertisements, as in this ad:\u003cbr>\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WIluNt0mvA]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaints aren't new. Microsoft put out a longer, more humorous Gmail Man advertisement a year ago:[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXqrTfOWx60]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Asked for comments, a Google spokesperson provided a written statement pointing out that live human beings at the company don't scan everyone's emails. \"An automated algorithm--similar to that used for features like Priority Inbox or spam filtering--determines which ads are shown.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one level, the Scroogled campaign is just another example of a company trashing a rival. \"Microsoft is in the position of the underdog and so the use of negative advertising is not surprising,\" said Weber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What sets apart the Microsoft campaign is that--especially in the early weeks--it said almost nothing about its own products. In that way it differed sharply from Apple's famous \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByCyqSROGf0&NR=1&feature=endscreen\">I'm a Mac\u003c/a>\" campaign that purported to offer a side-by-side comparison with Microsoft's Windows operating system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact the Scroogled campaign was more reminiscent of political advertising. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112421/microsofts-scroogle-ads-and-mark-penn\">some observers\u003c/a> said it was telling that Bill and Hillary Clinton's former pollster, Mark Penn, took a job at Microsoft before the campaign began.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\nUsing Google, said Microsoft's Stefan Weitz, \"is like smoking. It's hard to get folks to stop doing it.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Weitz said Penn had little to do with the effort. But he acknowledged that the campaign started with an opinion poll conducted by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. \"We found that seven out of 10 Americans don't know that this practice of scanning emails was happening, and when they found out they didn't like it,\" said Weitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft saw an opportunity to challenge what had become an almost unconscious habit. If you want to find something on the Internet, you Google it. \"People do it with muscle memory,\" said Weitz. \"They don't even give it a thought.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By raising the privacy and bias concerns, Microsoft wanted to introduce at least a moment of hesitation. \"They will hit that cognitive speed bump,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that strategy doesn't seem to have clicked with users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest market share scores from \u003ca href=\"http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2013/2/comScore_Releases_January_2013_U.S._Search_Engine_Rankings\" target=\"_blank\">comScore\u003c/a> show Google with a 67 percent share of Internet searches for January 2013, up 0.3% from its 66.7 percent share in December 2012. The gain erased its 0.3% loss from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2013/1/comScore_Releases_December_2012_U.S._Search_Engine_Rankings\" target=\"_blank\">month before\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft sites registered a 0.3% gain from November to January to reach a 16.5% share, but that increase appeared to come at the expense of also-rans like Ask and the struggling Yahoo!.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statistics.htm\">Email market share\u003c/a> is harder to measure because people read their email on a variety of different software on different devices and sometimes read the same message multiple times. Also Microsoft launched Outlook.com, an upgrade and rebranding of its hotmail.com web-based email program during the Scroogle campaign, further muddying the metrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even Weitz isn't claiming that Microsoft has unseated Gmail's position at or near the top of the heap among email services Americans like to use. \"It's a habit,\" said Weitz. \"It's like smoking. It's hard to get folks to stop doing it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only that, the ads just didn't resonate, said Weber of LunaMetrics. \"This sort of talk about privacy rings false and obscures the real issues,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users do care about privacy. But they are apparently sophisticated enough to know there isn't a human Gmail Man snooping on them, and they are willing to let a machine scan their emails and show them ads in exchange for a free service. \"By and large, people said, 'Eh, I don't care about this,'\" said Weber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And from a privacy standpoint, the distinction Microsoft made was trivial, said Seth Schoen, a senior staff technologist for the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation. \"What Microsoft was emphasizing is that they are not using users' data in the same way, in particular to target advertising,\" he said. \"As far as I know that's true. But it doesn't mean that they couldn't do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both companies collect data on what terms users plug into their search engines and use that information to target ads, he said. The practice of looking at emails to target ads is only slightly removed from that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they really wanted to get serious about privacy, Schoen said, Google and Microsoft would offer encrypted email programs that would be much harder for anyone to scan and analyze, including hackers, and they would create these technologies in ways that the security could be audited by third parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far neither company seems interested in such a venture. \"Against that backdrop there's not much difference between the two,\" said Schoen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft's complaint about Google Shopping results has a little more validity, Weber and Schoen agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users don't expect search results to be influenced by what advertisers pay, especially since the earlier version of Google Shopping, Froogle, didn't organize results that way, said Schoen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Google isn't hiding the practice--its acknowledged on the Google Shopping page. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if Microsoft hoped its campaign would win it a greater share of the market for Internet search or webmail, it looks like a pretty big flop. Data from market research suggests that users of Google search and Gmail shrugged off the onslaught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a little early to say, but it appears to be backfiring,\" said Jonathan Weber, an online advertising executive at \u003ca href=\"http://www.lunametrics.com/\" target=\"_blank\">LunaMetrics\u003c/a> digital marking firm in Pittsburgh.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ads, still \u003ca href=\"http://www.scroogled.com/\">available online,\u003c/a> Microsoft makes two claims about its competitor. First, it charges that Google scans Gmail messages, looking for keywords it can use to serve up relevant advertising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's an example of the first claim:\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://hub.video.msn.com/embed/daf3e70b-2c71-4ba2-b792-f975eadbc2e0/?vars=bGlua292ZXJyaWRlMj1odHRwJTNBJTJGJTJGd3d3LmJpbmcuY29tJTJGdmlkZW9zJTNGbWt0JTNEZW4tdXMlMjZ2aWQlM0QlN0IwJTdEJTI2ZnJvbSUzRCZmcj1zaGFyZWVtYmVkLXN5bmRpY2F0aW9uJnN5bmRpY2F0aW9uPXRhZyZjb25maWdOYW1lPXN5bmRpY2F0aW9ucGxheWVyJmxpbmtiYWNrPWh0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cuYmluZy5jb20lMkZ2aWRlb3MmbWt0PWVuLXVzJmNvbmZpZ0NzaWQ9TVNOVmlkZW8%3D\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, it says that the results of searches in Google Shopping are paid advertisements, as in this ad:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-WIluNt0mvA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-WIluNt0mvA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaints aren't new. Microsoft put out a longer, more humorous Gmail Man advertisement a year ago:\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/yXqrTfOWx60'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/yXqrTfOWx60'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Asked for comments, a Google spokesperson provided a written statement pointing out that live human beings at the company don't scan everyone's emails. \"An automated algorithm--similar to that used for features like Priority Inbox or spam filtering--determines which ads are shown.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one level, the Scroogled campaign is just another example of a company trashing a rival. \"Microsoft is in the position of the underdog and so the use of negative advertising is not surprising,\" said Weber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What sets apart the Microsoft campaign is that--especially in the early weeks--it said almost nothing about its own products. In that way it differed sharply from Apple's famous \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByCyqSROGf0&NR=1&feature=endscreen\">I'm a Mac\u003c/a>\" campaign that purported to offer a side-by-side comparison with Microsoft's Windows operating system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact the Scroogled campaign was more reminiscent of political advertising. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112421/microsofts-scroogle-ads-and-mark-penn\">some observers\u003c/a> said it was telling that Bill and Hillary Clinton's former pollster, Mark Penn, took a job at Microsoft before the campaign began.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\nUsing Google, said Microsoft's Stefan Weitz, \"is like smoking. It's hard to get folks to stop doing it.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Weitz said Penn had little to do with the effort. But he acknowledged that the campaign started with an opinion poll conducted by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. \"We found that seven out of 10 Americans don't know that this practice of scanning emails was happening, and when they found out they didn't like it,\" said Weitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft saw an opportunity to challenge what had become an almost unconscious habit. If you want to find something on the Internet, you Google it. \"People do it with muscle memory,\" said Weitz. \"They don't even give it a thought.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By raising the privacy and bias concerns, Microsoft wanted to introduce at least a moment of hesitation. \"They will hit that cognitive speed bump,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that strategy doesn't seem to have clicked with users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest market share scores from \u003ca href=\"http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2013/2/comScore_Releases_January_2013_U.S._Search_Engine_Rankings\" target=\"_blank\">comScore\u003c/a> show Google with a 67 percent share of Internet searches for January 2013, up 0.3% from its 66.7 percent share in December 2012. The gain erased its 0.3% loss from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2013/1/comScore_Releases_December_2012_U.S._Search_Engine_Rankings\" target=\"_blank\">month before\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft sites registered a 0.3% gain from November to January to reach a 16.5% share, but that increase appeared to come at the expense of also-rans like Ask and the struggling Yahoo!.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statistics.htm\">Email market share\u003c/a> is harder to measure because people read their email on a variety of different software on different devices and sometimes read the same message multiple times. Also Microsoft launched Outlook.com, an upgrade and rebranding of its hotmail.com web-based email program during the Scroogle campaign, further muddying the metrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even Weitz isn't claiming that Microsoft has unseated Gmail's position at or near the top of the heap among email services Americans like to use. \"It's a habit,\" said Weitz. \"It's like smoking. It's hard to get folks to stop doing it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only that, the ads just didn't resonate, said Weber of LunaMetrics. \"This sort of talk about privacy rings false and obscures the real issues,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users do care about privacy. 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Many companies designate their holdings overseas even though much of the money is invested in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five companies – Cisco Systems, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Google and Oracle – accounted for more than two-thirds of the $225 billion in accumulated foreign earnings as of Dec. 31, 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech companies that relied on foreign income to reduce their taxes include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Apple, which reported $40.4 billion in holdings overseas and had an effective global tax rate of 12.6 percent over the past three years\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>eBay, which reported $10 billion overseas and had an effective tax rate of 15.3 percent over the past three years\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Google, which reported $24.8 billion overseas and had an effective tax rate of 17.6 percent over the past three years\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Yahoo, which reported $3.2 billion overseas and had an effective tax rate of 17.9 percent over the past three years\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cisco, which reported $41.3 billion overseas and had an effective tax rate of 20.9 percent over the past three years\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/Silicon-Valley-Taxes.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Audio: Interview with reporter Matt Drange\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The companies declined to comment on their offshore holdings or the amount of taxes they paid.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>The effective tax rate is based on the Center for Investigative Reporting’s calculation using the firm’s publicly available information; companies are not required to make public how much they paid the Internal Revenue Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of Silicon Valley’s biggest firms will benefit from a two-year extension of a tax provision – included in the January fiscal cliff deal – allowing them to defer taxes on royalties earned by their foreign subsidiaries. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates this will cost the U.S. government more than $1.5 billion in the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the investigations subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, charged at a hearing in September that U.S. companies have stockpiled $1.7 trillion in earnings overseas, all of which has gone untaxed by the U.S. Treasury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line of our investigation is that some multinationals use our current tax system to engage in shams and gimmicks to avoid paying the taxes they owe,” Levin said at the hearing. “It is a system that multinationals have used to shift billions of dollars of profit offshore and avoid billions of dollars in U.S. taxes, to their enormous benefit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 7, Sen. 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It would be enough to fund public schools and higher education in California for more than two years or cover 206 days of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>according to state and federal budget data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many multinational corporations based in the United States, Clausing said, the top corporate income tax rate of 35 percent is a myth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think our system’s stated intention and its actual practice have diverged to a point where it’s bordering on ridiculous,” she said. “If you look at the firms in question, they aren’t paying anywhere near that rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 50 largest Bay Area tech companies, 17 estimated the U.S. taxes they owed on overseas earnings. If these companies were taxed on that money today, they would owe the U.S. Treasury $25.9 billion, according to their own estimates. The other companies avoided disclosure by citing an exception that estimating their tax burden was impractical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a disgrace,” said Kleinbard, the USC professor. “It’s entirely optional whether companies provide U.S. tax estimates on offshore earnings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the companies analyzed by the Center for Investigative Reporting\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>support a lobbying effort in Washington for a one-time tax holiday that would allow them to transfer foreign earnings to the United States at rates as low as 5 percent. An industry group, which calls itself the WIN America Campaign, has spent $760,000 on lobbying since it was formed in 2011, federal records show. Its backers include the \u003ca href=\"http://www.svtdg.org/index.html\">Silicon Valley Tax Directors Group\u003c/a>, made up of representatives from dozens of tech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar amnesty was offered in 2004. 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