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Or: We are in a bubble in Redmond and thinking we know best and how products work we bounced around emails and thought it would be a good testing idea based on results in China (a controlled market where it is nearly impossible speak up). AI buzz is hot these days so our marketing team also backed it up and we decided it would be great from a PR perspective to capture some of the buzz around AlphaGo. Boy were we so wrong. Because we have never launched a real product into the wild we thought everything would go well and PR buzz would give us a coolness bump.

Now we discovered something called stopwords, and bayseian spam filters which, are also available part of project Oxford.

Good luck kids and welcome to the real world because its a crazy world out there when you leave Redmond.

[rewrew]

Or no one in Microsoft feels free to speak up when they see a bad idea coming down the road so something like this just sails through instead of getting flagged. I've seen it -- not this big of scale, but I've seen it.

[mizzao]

Or, on the other hand, this actually wasn't obvious and now we just have thousands of Captain Hindsights saying it was.