Facebook ad customer is bad business from Bing

[Basil Chupin]

*ACCORDING TO A POST* at Google Buzz by Google's Matt Cutts, one of the 
largest advertisers on the Facebook social notworking website is a 
stinky Microsoft affliliate scam.

Cutts, who is head of Google's anti-spam team, was digging into a 
Facebook advertiser that goes by the name of Make-my-baby.com and found 
that it has murky roots in, or at least very strong ties to, Microsoft's 
Bing.

Cutts was responding to an article in Advertising Age 
<http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=148236> that suggested 
Facebook was muscling in on Google's ad business. Facebook, it seems, is 
earning $1.86 billion in worldwide advertising revenues a year, which is 
big business in anyone's book.

Perhaps rankled by this, or just interested in its findings, he 
investigated the firm that is the third biggest advertiser on the 
website, and found that its apparent aim is to stop people from using 
homepages that aren't Microsoft's Bing.

"Visiting make-my-baby.com instantly prompts you to install a browser 
plugin," he wrote. "The 'terms and conditions' link takes you to 
http://mmb.bingstart.com/terms/ which has phrases like 'If Chrome ("CR") 
is installed on your PC we may change the default setting of your home 
page on CR to Bingstart.com.'"

Cutts suggested that people were installing the plug-in, which he added, 
hid the information about changing home pages in its small print 
<http://www.google.com/buzz/109412257237874861202/FXL1y8qG7YF/http-adage-com-digital-article-article-id-148236>.


http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1937776/facebook-customer-bad-business-bing

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