Digging in the Dirt

I love it when people from one vendor, for example, the competitive intelligence folks or product management, leave trails how they are trying to knock, bash, and discredit their competition. Of course, many times, there is hearsay like "I was told that vendor XYZ's product doesn't scale, doesn't perform, has quality issues, is untested, ..." The creativity has no limits. Then there are people that use Google to skim the Internet's bulletin boards, forums, or blogs in their quest for dirt.

My Sitemeter log just monitored a nice example of the described category. A Firefox user on a Mac, working at Oracle is apparently on the lookout for stories about support challenges at MicroStrategy.


What's interesting is not the fact that a vendor would do such a thing. Business is war, right? The funny part is the wording of the search term that the Oracle person used to find something of value about MicroStrategy. Horror stories? As if someone would just write them up nicely for easy consumption.


What gets me is this: With those search words, why does my blog show up in Google's results? The mentioned entry page mentions MicroStragegy alright, but no horror story.