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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by ralfd on Monday June 13, 2016 @09:11AM (#11893492)
Btw: A few years ago Microsoft paid for product placement in television series to counter "google it". It is amazingly awkward and sounds like from a strange parallel universe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHuZ5qrYX4

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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by ohstopitu on Monday June 13, 2016 @09:58AM (#11893889)
Hawaii Five 0 has cring worthy Microsoft ads throughout the entire show.

At this point, it's more like Microsoft's ad ground where shitty ads that didn't make it to youtube go to die.

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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by bsimpson on Monday June 13, 2016 @09:29AM (#11893661)
It amuses me that they paid people to make their search engine look slow.
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