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Bing’s Travel Alert Fare Prediction Tool Sucks
Posted on June 24th, 2011
imnotadoctor No comments

I was planning a trip to head up to Seattle for the 4th of July holiday and decided to put Bing’s Travel alert fare prediction tool to work. I let a few days go by and did not see any significant fare rate drops, so I decided to do some looking around on my own. I ended up buying tickets directly from the airlines website for less than my set price of $385.

I continued to keep the alerts going to see if eventually I would get a better deal. Looks like I made the right decision. I guess to the tool’s features were too good to be true.

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Apple Slaps Microsoft!
Posted on January 31st, 2007
imnotadoctor 3 comments

Last night I was watching the premiere of House and noticed a commercial from Apple:

I was dying laughing my ass off! With the launch of Mircosoft Vista yesterday, the timing was perfect by Apple. It is like Steve Jobs stealing Bill Gates’s ice cream cone and then slapping him in the face.

My next laptop purchase might just have to a mac…… (ARG! Their marketing efforts are working).

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Microsoft AdCenter New Features
Posted on December 19th, 2006
imnotadoctor No comments

I received an email today from Microsoft regarding Adcenter improvements. They have implemented “Divide across the month” feature which will help ads appear more consistently throughout the month. They also added new information to your Budget Summary report called Average Participation Rate.

Here are the highlights:
Your daily ad delivery will be filtered to distribute more evenly across the month.
Because of this process, ads may not display on every search query. This is meant to avoid excessive clicks that might cause budget depletion.
You’ll see a new column in your Budget Summary reports, called Average Participation Rate (Average PR), to help you estimate how your ad delivery is filtered throughout the month.

It is good to see Adcenter evolving, but If no one is using your live.com search then who is actually going to us Adcenter. Maybe people that have the budget or want to try it out, but for first time PPC user they will turn to Adwords or Yahoo’s new Panama.

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