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post Wed 24th January 2007, 8:48am
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Microsoft in hot water for offer to pay for Wikipedia edits
Montreal Gazette (subscription), Canada - 3 hours ago
Microsoft Corp. landed in the Wikipedia doghouse yesterday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web ...
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post Wed 24th January 2007, 1:06pm
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Microsoft landed in the Wikipedia doghouse Tuesday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site.

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post Wed 24th January 2007, 2:27pm
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Microsoft rumbled over Wikipedia edits
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By Nick Farrell: Wednesday 24 January 2007, 14:17. MICROSOFT HAS has got itself in trouble with Wikipedia for paying experts to write "accurate information" ...
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post Wed 24th January 2007, 2:31pm
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MICROSOFT HAS has got itself in trouble with Wikipedia for paying experts to write "accurate information" about it in the online encyclopaedia.

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post Wed 24th January 2007, 2:32pm
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Microsoft pays for ‘friendly’ Wikipedia edits
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"A software engineer in Australia has said he was offered payment by Microsoft to edit certain entries in the Wikipedia online dictionary, opening a heated ...
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post Wed 24th January 2007, 3:18pm
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Microsoft Corp. has landed in the Wikipedia doghouse after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site.

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Microsoft in hot water over Wikipedia edits
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. has landed in the Wikipedia doghouse after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web ...
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post Wed 24th January 2007, 3:31pm
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Microsoft accused of offering to pay an Australian blogger to "correct errors" on technical articles on the Wikipedia web encyclopedia site.

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post Wed 24th January 2007, 4:09pm
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Wikipedia Rejects Microsoft's For-Hire Edits
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. has landed in the Wikipedia doghouse after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site.

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post Wed 24th January 2007, 5:34pm
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Microsoft landed in the Wikipedia doghouse Tuesday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopediasite.



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post Wed 24th January 2007, 5:16pm
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Microsoft landed in the Wikipedia doghouse Tuesday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site. While Wikipedia is known as the encyclopedia that anyone can tweak, it has blocked public-relations firms, campaign workers and anyone else perceived as having a conflict of interest from posting fluff or slanting entries.

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post Wed 24th January 2007, 6:14pm
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<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=DDZvTNqValAJ&imgurl=www.p2pnet.net/story_images/11119.jpg width=61 height=80 alt="" border=1>Microsoft Wikipedia row
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p2pnet.net News:- Bill and the Boyz admit they tried to pay well-known writer Rick Jelliffe to alter the content in a Wikipedia post. ...
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post Wed 24th January 2007, 2:27pm
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Blog: The same feature that allows a community to collectively add wisdom to Wikipedia entries can also allow flame wars to break out...

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Microsoft is reported to have offered a blogger a bribe to change their Wikipedia entry. This was discovered and reported.



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Microsoft landed in the Wikipedia doghouse Tuesday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopediasite.



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Microsoft under fire for Wikipedia laundering
What PC?, UK - 11 minutes ago
Microsoft has drawn criticism after it proposed to pay a programmer to clean up a Wikipedia entry on its Open XML technology. ...
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post Wed 24th January 2007, 2:10pm
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"Microsoft landed in the Wikipedia doghouse after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced encyclopedia site.

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When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, the software company endured online slams and a rebuke from the Web encyclopedia's founder for behaving unethically.



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post Wed 24th January 2007, 8:20pm
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Idea of paid entries roils Wikipedia
Biloxi Sun Herald, MS - 15 minutes ago
AP. BOSTON - When a blogger revealed this week that Microsoft Corp. wanted to pay him to fix purported inaccuracies in technical articles on Wikipedia, ...
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