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Is Microsoft Crawling Google?

triplecoil writes "Jason Dowdell over at WebProNews has written a piece questioning a tactic Microsoft might be using to beef up its new search engine. He thinks they might be dipping into Google's results to supplement its own. Dowdell likens it to leaving your garbage on the curb--anyone could conceivably go through it and take whatever is there for their own."

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  1. Difficult to do if Google doesn't want them to by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All Google has to do is run some unusual queries through MSN, check their logs, find the IP addresses and block them.