Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results

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Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results
Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then uses that information to improve Bing’s own search listings. Bing doesn’t deny this.

As a result of the apparent monitoring, Bing’s relevancy is potentially improving (or getting worse) on the back of Google’s own work. Google likens it to the digital equivalent of Bing leaning over during an exam and copying off of Google’s test.

“I’ve spent my career in pursuit of a good search engine,” says Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow who oversees the search engine’s ranking algorithm. “I’ve got no problem with a competitor developing an innovative algorithm. But copying is not innovation, in my book.”

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This seems pretty underhanded to me, of course the biggest surprise is that anybody uses Bing. :confused:
 
It doesn’t surprise me that they’re doing it and if it’s not illegal then cheating will happen in most industries.
 
philip2009 said:
This seems pretty underhanded to me, of course the biggest surprise is that anybody uses Bing. :confused:
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I read on in the article and only 7-9 of their 'fake' searches google implemented got copied over to bing.

Anyhoo if this means the poor sods who use bing get better results than so be it!
 
Google is good, but it does not dominate the world over. I don't know the name but in China, their most popular search engine is not Google, in fact, google only hold a small share of the search engine market in China.
 
Spunkey said:
A Microsoft project using underhanded tactics to gain market share/more visits/better results?

THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED
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Awesome use of caps

After a long ****ty day, that made me lol on a cold station platform

Bless you
 
er Google + harvesting wifi when doing street view anyone?

Leave them to it. If it means we have some competition then all the better, it's never good to have a market leader who is streets ahead.
 
Wasn't there a research paper released recently about google giving preferential search listings to it's own "stuff". Like whatever they're all involved in I don't keep track of them. Google and Bing are like two little children that have been caught standing beside a cake and they're covered in chocolate. Google is standing slightly behind Bing, wild eyed, pointing frantically, chocolate smeared over his fat cheeks.
 
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