Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results

vonhelmet said:
Was there any inappropriate intent, or was it anciliary to what they were doing?
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Google responded to the whole issuemultiple times and a report was created and issued to authoraties to review. The software doing the collecting was a third party piece going by the news.

The report and all info was posted on the blog:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/wifi-data-collection-update.html

In short, it was intended that the street cars would only collect SSID data and Mac addresses of access points for public wifi points used for location based services but they ended up collecting info from unprotected consumer wifi networks as well and in addition took payload data samples as well.

They've confirmed none of this data was used in any Google product or service.

This issue was resolved long ago but people still seem to bring it up time and time again like how people bitter with MS will bring up the Vista was pants, 7 is great debate every few months.
 
vonhelmet said:
Was there any inappropriate intent, or was it anciliary to what they were doing?
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Anciliary [sic]? Irrelevant to my comment.

They harvested the data, and were resistant to its destruction - if they have done that yet. I will, however, intimate that they knew it was happening. The alternative is incompetence or negligence.
 
Bing does have groundhogs on the page at the moment which is a big plus, but nothing, nothing will ever beat googles pacman front page.
 
meghatronic said:
They harvested the data, and were resistant to its destruction - if they have done that yet. I will, however, intimate that they knew it was happening. The alternative is incompetence or negligence.
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tbh I wouldn't care even if every single google employee knew it was happening... If someone has an unprotected wifi network and someone gets some data off it, which they don't use to harm you, then I don't see the problem - after all, just walking past people and listening to bits of their conversation isn't illegal, so I don't see why driving past and listening to some wifi data should be illegal.
 
s innes said:
why didn't they just hack the servers and take googles search engine’s ranking algorithm
that way they wouldn't have to copy there results
they could then just make a few mods to it and call it there own
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because that would have been illegal and Google is one of the few companies with enough budget to sue Microsoft successfully.
 
Khaaan! said:
Google responded to the whole issuemultiple times and a report was created and issued to authoraties to review. The software doing the collecting was a third party piece going by the news.

The report and all info was posted on the blog:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/wifi-data-collection-update.html

In short, it was intended that the street cars would only collect SSID data and Mac addresses of access points for public wifi points used for location based services but they ended up collecting info from unprotected consumer wifi networks as well and in addition took payload data samples as well.

They've confirmed none of this data was used in any Google product or service.

This issue was resolved long ago but people still seem to bring it up time and time again like how people bitter with MS will bring up the Vista was pants, 7 is great debate every few months.
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Just because google say something doesn't mean it's true.

Data to google = £, it's what their business is based on.
Companies sell our email addresses, telephone numbers, home addresses etc, nothing ever comes of it though, it's not exactly easy to trace.
 
Lakeland said:
Just because google say something doesn't mean it's true.

Data to google = £, it's what their business is based on.
Companies sell our email addresses, telephone numbers, home addresses etc, nothing ever comes of it though, it's not exactly easy to trace.
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Go on then... who are Google going to sell a huge list of SSIDs to?
 
AcidHell2 said:
+1, google is the worst, although I use yahoo as I have email with them.
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Yahoo would never have survived as long as they have if they didn't piggyback off Google at the start.
As a matter of fact, their first search engine was more of a google redirect, and their second was based on google technology.
So according to you Yahoo is worse than worse, how does that work?
 
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