MicroDesperate?

Do Redmond's sweaty attempts at relevance in online advertising have any shameful bottom?

The answer is,"No."

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In its scramble to avoid sliding to as low as fifth on the scale of search engine providers this year, Microsoft today has begun grabbing misspelled URLs pointing to its own hosted domains, and redirecting those users to Live Search.

A Microsoft spokesperson has informed BetaNews that customers of Microsoft-hosted domains -- which should include subscribers to its Office Live Small Business Web hosting service -- will notice changes in how their sites behave. Specifically, when a user types in a URL for a non-existent page, rather than the 404 message she would expect to receive from her Web browser (or her add-on toolbar), she'll be redirected to a page on Microsoft's Live Search. More...