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The Help Desk => Computer Related Discussions & Questions => Topic started by: Chris_ on February 01, 2011, 01:44:42 PM
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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.
Bing doesn’t deny Google’s claim. Indeed, the statement that Stefan Weitz, director of Microsoft’s Bing search engine, emailed me yesterday as I worked on this article seems to confirm the allegation:
Around late May of last year, Google told me it began noticing that Bing seemed to be doing exceptionally well at returning the same sites that Google would list, when someone would enter unusual misspellings.
Search Engine Land (http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-our-search-results-62914)
Looks like someone got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. :thatsright:
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:ohnoes:
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I think bing sucks eggs. Never gets me close to what I want and refuse to use it.
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I think bing sucks eggs. Never gets me close to what I want and refuse to use it.
That was my experience with it, too.
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That was my experience with it, too.
It is the only defaultable search engine on my crackberry so I take the extra step of loading google from history for every search so I don't have to use bing.
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Bing is a Microsoft Product. Is there any doubt that Bill Gates wouldn't steal somebody else's data to make his own data work better?!!?!?!? I thought that was a founding principle of Microsoft!!
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Bing is a Microsoft Product. Is there any doubt that Bill Gates wouldn't steal somebody else's data to make his own data work better?!!?!?!? I thought that was a founding principle of Microsoft!!
:lol:
:cheersmate: