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Bing Is Cheating, Copying Google Search Results

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Close the loop? by TerranFury · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Now what happens if Google, to improve its search results, starts copying Bing as well? Is this feedback interconnection stable, or will it merely result in spurious noise being amplified, which commentators will misidentify as vast social movements?

  2. Mountweazels by jfengel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Dictionary makers deliberately introduce "mountweazels", fake words designed to catch people violating their copyrights. Map makers use "copyright traps", fake streets.

    Sounds like Google did this on a one-time basis, but it seems to me that they could make it permanent. If nothing else, finding the mountweazels could be fun.

    They already have a few jokes interspersed, like "anagram" and "french military victories". I wonder if Bing shows unexpected results for those.

  3. google instant vs duckduckgo by GodWasAnAlien · · Score: 5, Interesting

    People are not leaving Google because other search engines are getting better.

    Rather, people are leaving because Google is getting worse and has lost focus of search simplicity.

    Google instant drove me out.

    If start typing and several pages fly by per second, this increases the garbage to information ratio, is inefficient, and disruptive. Often, the result is a blank page.

    I switched to duckduckgo, as it simple, and the results are good.

    Occasionally, I will use !g in the duckduckgo search to access google, but I try to avoid it.

    Google should stop worrying about Bing, and look within.