Microsoft to award companies to use Live Search at work

Software giant Microsoft has announced a controversial program through which they are planning to offer large businesses rewards if they get their workers to use Live Search at work.

The company said that they would give business customers service or training credits based on how much Live Search is used at their company.

Microsoft said in a statement on this program: “We 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. As 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.”

Microsoft is working hard to close in on the market leader Google in the search engine market. This is just one of the many ways they are trying to get more people to use their Live Search instead of Google. Microsoft has also just signed on a deal with Lenovo and the PC maker would ship their machines with Live tools preloaded.

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