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Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results
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Hey M$, isn't this intellectual property theft? Nice post Paul.
Quoting:Hey M$, isn't this intellectual property theft?And yet Bing's Yusuf Mehdi certainly realizes that the best Defense is a good Offense.
As attributed to Mehdi in 'Bing: “We Do Not Copy Results. Period.”' found at http://searchengineland.com/bing-we-do-not-copy-results-peri...
Quoting:Mehdi, Microsoft’s Senior VP of Online Services, just published a strongly-worded denial of Google’s claims on the Bing Search blog http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/20... :
[Mehdi:] We do not copy results from any of our competitors. Period. Full stop. We have some of the best minds in the world at work on search quality and relevance, and for a competitor to accuse any one of these people of such activity is just insulting.
Quoting:Mehdi’s post today turns the heat up more with accusations that Google’s test was a form of click fraud:
[Mehdi:] Google engaged in a “honeypot” attack to trick Bing. In simple terms, Google’s “experiment” was rigged to manipulate Bing search results through a type of attack also known as “click fraud.” That’s right, the same type of attack employed by spammers on the web to trick consumers and produce bogus search results. What does all this cloak and dagger click fraud prove? Nothing anyone in the industry doesn’t already know. As we have said before and again in this post, we use click stream optionally provided by consumers in an anonymous fashion as one of 1,000 signals to try and determine whether a site might make sense to be in our index.
A type of technolegal "brinkmanship" between Microsoft and Google??
Brinkmanship; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmanship
I really like the idea of a script that passes invalid results to Microsoft.
@tracyanne, It looks like the Bing Toolbar also installs a plugin named "Search Helper" in firefox. I think this plugin also sends data to Bing. The extension contains one big javascript file, so maybe someone could use that to reverse engineer how the data is send to Bing.
Whatever they are looking for, the search result is for LXer or a site with stories about Windows security vulnerabilities.
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It's time to re-open the anti-trust remedy.