Hey Microsoft, make it easier for us to adopt home.live.com...

Tags: Ads, Live.com, Microsoft

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:51:00 AM
If you haven’t noticed, live.com has been going through some upgrades and I have officially moved my environment over to http://home.live.com. I have even switched to the Live Search provider for IE7.No more Google.The biggest pain point for me is the 300x300 advertisement on http://home.live.com.  I usually don’t mind the ads, like most, my mind has this ability to simply filter that crap out.  But if I'm going to set it as my browser home page the ads just make it dirty; load time sucks, the distraction is even worse....  

Having Google.ca as my home page was a good experience for me, because it was minimal and contained no ads (other than the few google spewed out on occasion).

So my recommendation to Microsoft is to avoid placing ads on a URL where you need to have the greatest adoption for the product line to succeed.

 

1 Comment

  • B said

    You are so right. I first turned to Google when I discovered that unlike yahoo, altavista (remember that?) or MSN, it did what it said - search - and nothing else. No text, no ads, no pictures, it was blazing fast and low on bandwidth to boot. No one else has so far done that. Incredible. Why you'd choose, willingly, to change search engines is unfathomable, at least from this point of view. As for the filters, I've got a better one: it's called Adblock, and it's the reason I use firefox. But hey, IE7 is just as good, or so I'm told :D

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