I am sorry, but when I saw this story the only people I could think of was Beavis and Butthead. You know those two idiots who would do the commentary during the videos on MTV back in the 90s. Yeah. THOSE guys.

I remember an episode when they were watching Jeopardy and Butthead says towards the screen, “You Dumbass” at the precise moment Alec Trebec corrects the contestant, “Remember to answer in the form of a question.” To which Butthead responds, “What are you, a dumbass?”

Classic. Even if it is classic idiotness, which is exactly what Microsoft is these days.

Are they serious? Have they gotten this stupid? Apparently so.

The summary is basically this: Microsoft felt there were some inaccuracies in some posts on Wikipedia that had to do with OpenSource. Microsoft felt those articles were written by people with strong ties with IBM or by IBM directly. Microsoft claims that they tried to go through and get the articles changed, but when they weren’t, they offered a Blogger cash to change them.

That is funny, damn funny if you ask me. I mean, this is as close to a “Godfather” payout as you will get in the search world, but the way that Microsoft went about it was as if they wanted to get caught. You can liken it to performing a drug buy in front of the police station.

Not a good move.

While the writer is claiming no money changed hands, I don’t buy it. They can tell the press whatever they want – and the writer is down in Australia.

Now, if you think I am calling Microsoft “dumb asses” for trying to edit the Wiki, you are wrong. They are dumb asses because they got caught.

How do I know this? Simple. I know personally a greatly respected white hat SEO who is a complete Spammer. Yet he/she is smart enough to cover their tracks so they can’t be detected. You mean to tell me with all of the resources and money that Microsoft has they couldn’t have kept this quiet?

I know many of you right now are editing sections of the Wikipedia for your own gain, or the gain of the products you market. Did you get caught? Of course not.

Maybe you can send your resume to Bill and tell him with your help, he can get his edge back, because he has definitely lost it. If I can quote David Lee Roth of Van Halen, “Big Bad Bill is Sweet William Now.”

You can read the complete article here.

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