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Bing Is Cheating, Copying Google Search Results

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 1, 2011 @05:32AM from the everyone-gets-a-c-plus dept.

An anonymous reader writes "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."

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Terrible. by CannonballHead · 2011-02-01 05:36 · Score: 3, Funny

They should really reinvent the wheel. Copying Google's wheel isn't fair! ...
The decision engine by imthesponge · 2011-02-01 05:38 · Score: 4, Funny

It just made the decision to copy from Google.
Yahoo by Reorix · 2011-02-01 05:40 · Score: 5, Funny

Yahoo -> Bing -> Google

Looks like Yahoo gets the 3-day-old-bagel of search results.
Re:Close the loop? by nedlohs · 2011-02-01 05:56 · Score: 5, Funny

It will become self aware, and set in motions events that end up with humans being used as batteries in vast farms.