From Google: "Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it"

[acr1965]

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/...le-search.html

2/01/2011 02:56:00 PM

"By now, you may have read Danny Sullivan’s recent post: 'Google: Bing is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results' and heard Microsoft’s response, 'We do not copy Google's results.' However you define copying, the bottom line is, these Bing results came directly from Google." Amit Singhal, Google Fellow

[Daveski17]

Oh dear Bing ... gotcha! I wonder how old Jeeves gets his info?

[funkydude]

Bing engineer accuses Google of profiting from search spam

http://www.businessinsider.com/bing-...ch-spam-2011-2

Let the cat fight commence!

[Cudni]

Publicity is never bad it seems. I would have found the story more interesting if it was not busy trying cheap point scoring. Of course all is fair in publicity wars

[Noob]

Hahaha interesting

[PJC]

Originally Posted by Daveski17

Oh dear Bing ... gotcha!
I wonder how old Jeeves gets his info?

[m00nbl00d]

During political campaigns in the United States, you don't see Republican or Democrat candidates running attack ads against the Green party candidate. NFL teams don't talk trash about the Detroit Lions. McDonald's doesn't run marketing campaigns slamming the local burger joint on the corner. Why? Because none of these "rivals" is actually a threat worth the effort.

-http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/218726/google_considers_bing_a_serious_threat.html?tk=hp_new

They do have a point, uh?

[funkydude]

Bing sets the record straight

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.

http://www.bing.com/community/site_b...-straight.aspx

Google ain't so innocent

[acr1965]

I think the MS reply is kinda insulting. I'm no search engine guru, obviously. But the response includes:

"We have brought a number of things to market that we are very proud of -- our daily home page photos..."

"...we have been making steady, quiet progress on core search relevance. In October 2010 we released a series of big, noticeable improvements to Bing’s relevance. So big and noticeable that we are told Google took notice and began to worry. Then a short time later, here come the honeypot attacks."

So Bing brought nice photos to the search engine homepage. They made "big" improvements in search results. And there's a rumor Google is worried.

And I guess MS was once again duped by a malware technique.

[Noob]

I don't think Bing is really copying Google
There's another Forums i visit and some dudes tried a few searches and they were all different.

[allizomeniz]

Bing's results are definitely different from Google. Sometimes better, sometimes worse.

[Kernelwars]

I have never noticed any similarities but hey I am no guru..

[Noob]

Yeah, both are search engines, both are supposed to search, sometimes they bring similar results (Of all the screenshots i've seen, most of the time only 1 results is similar, and sometimes it's a WIKIPEDIA article )