Microsoft Corp. 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 ...

Wikipedia, for instance, offers 2.7 million articles in English. Google ’s Knol, which like Wikipedia depends on user-generated content, has more than 100,000. Encarta has 42,000 entries.

Brooker said Microsoft had gotten nowhere in trying to flag the purported mistakes to Wikipedia’s volunteer editors, so it sought an independent expert who could determine whether changes were ...

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

I’ll pay you to read IT Blogwatch: in which Microsoft is accused of paying others to fiddle with Wikipedia. Not to mention how to clean your keyboard in a dishwasher… Thus spoke Nancy Gohring ...

A Microsoft spokesman said that the company tried to change the Wikipedia articles on its own, but the edits were refused. "At that point, we realized we needed to enlist some help," he said. That ...

Within the last few days Microsoft quietly announced it is killing its Encarta encyclopedia, with the actual date of death October, 2009. What it hinted at, but didn’t quite say, was that ...

A tool that Microsoft Corp. introduced Monday uses artificial intelligence to automatically generate Wikipedia-like pages of information about a company’s products, projects and customers. The ...

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will discontinue both its MSN Encarta reference Web sites as well as its Encarta software, which have both been surpassed by rising competitors, like Wikipedia.