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Is Microsoft Crawling Google?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the put-on-your-foil-hat dept.

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. ISRAEL POISONED ARAFAT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well looks like this mothercukginf bitch jjust got FIRST POST HOMIES YEAH YEAH TRIPLE P

  2. This guy is a dumbass... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How did this make front page?
    Holy shit our editors suck. This guy is fucking dumb.

  3. Re:You don't say! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sort of like how Linus searched through SCO property.

  4. MSN and Google by stratjakt · · Score: 1, Troll

    Can both crawl up my ass.

    And who cares what Jamie Crowell (or whoever), random blogger, thinks MSN might be doing, no doubt based purely on "ms sucks" rhetoric?

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  5. Re:LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Not quite dumbass. Both meanings are spelled "habit".


    No entry found for habbit.
    Did you mean habit?


    FUCK YOU SLASHDOT! You can never ban me! Ever heard of a fucking proxy!? Fuck all y'all.

  6. Re:Difficult to do if Google doesn't want them to by superpulpsicle · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey it's not easy to block any gorilla, nevermind a trillion dollar one. Though again, Google should just block the word "windows" and "microsoft" at the javascript level on the main page.

  7. Re:You don't say! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not really. What Linus did was illegal, and the Lunix OS is illegal.

    OTOH, anyone is free to search through Google's content. That's what it's there for.

  8. Search them back with this search string by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Search them back with this search string

    (a OR b OR c OR d OR e OR f OR g OR h OR i OR j OR k OR l OR m OR n OR o OR p OR q OR r OR s OR t OR u OR v OR w OR x OR y OR z OR )

    int27h

  9. Re:Don't concern yourself with this crap... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How did an ugly bastard like yourself end up with a hot girlfriend?

  10. Re:Don't concern yourself with this crap... by iMMersE · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm going to save people a whole lot of time reading this story.

    Firstly, from the article :

    Obviously my conclusion should be taken as a grain of salt but it's a definite possibility. Microsoft very well could be screen scraping Google (or maybe even using their API, LOL) and crawling the urls it finds.

    When I read the "LOL" bit, I realised it was my kid brother who had written the article.

    And as for a quick summary of the hundreds of comments that follow :

    "IANAL but ..."
    "M$ are poo, Google are ace"
    "M$ M$ M$ M$ ..."
    "I haven't read the article, but here's my opinion ..."
    "Google and MSN don't obey my robot.txt." "That's because it's robots.txt ..."

    This post has been a free public service.

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