Sponsored Site messages in WLM conversations

I was chatting with one colleague and randomly messages would appeared
prefixed with "SPONSORED SITE" in the message dialog with an advertisment.

The messages appear to come from "Search finds:"

Is this by design or as a result of spyware?

Greetings,

You or your contact are accidently hitting the 'Search' button in the conversation window as
opposed to 'Send'. This causes whatever you typed to be searched by Live Search and
displayed in the conversation window (including the sponsored site result).

As such, it's by design.

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"selector" <> wrote in message
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>I was chatting with one colleague and randomly messages would appeared
> prefixed with "SPONSORED SITE" in the message dialog with an advertisment.
>
> The messages appear to come from "Search finds:"
>
> Is this by design or as a result of spyware?