Well... Yes and no.
Swalpa background : Google Fellow Amit Singhal claimed this morning that Bing was simply siphoning off results from Google. Of course he had to show proof field this. So this is what he did.
He finds a search term that returns no matches for either site , make a " honeypot " page manually appear for the term , then he had some Google employees make the search (and click the top link ) using Internet Explorer with both Suggested Sites and the Bing Toolbar on. Within two weeks , Singhal found that about 7 to 9 of the 100 or so " honeypot " results were popping up in Bing. Coincidence? The results matched for bizarre words like mbrzxpgjys , hiybbprqag , and indoswiftjobinproduction .
Why did we say no as well? That's because the 'sting' was run with Bing's toolbar and Suggested Search feature activated, which MS explicitly says are used to collect data and improve services. And more popular search terms do return different results(which is the reason many return to Google ;) )
So this one looks like a don't-use-us-to-improve-yourself from Google. Microsoft will probably come up with a counter attack . Watch out for some fireworks !
Siphoned from engadget ;)
Swalpa background : Google Fellow Amit Singhal claimed this morning that Bing was simply siphoning off results from Google. Of course he had to show proof field this. So this is what he did.
He finds a search term that returns no matches for either site , make a " honeypot " page manually appear for the term , then he had some Google employees make the search (and click the top link ) using Internet Explorer with both Suggested Sites and the Bing Toolbar on. Within two weeks , Singhal found that about 7 to 9 of the 100 or so " honeypot " results were popping up in Bing. Coincidence? The results matched for bizarre words like mbrzxpgjys , hiybbprqag , and indoswiftjobinproduction .
Why did we say no as well? That's because the 'sting' was run with Bing's toolbar and Suggested Search feature activated, which MS explicitly says are used to collect data and improve services. And more popular search terms do return different results(which is the reason many return to Google ;) )
So this one looks like a don't-use-us-to-improve-yourself from Google. Microsoft will probably come up with a counter attack . Watch out for some fireworks !
Siphoned from engadget ;)
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I don't think so.
ReplyDeleteWell i always knew Bing douldnt catch up to the accuracy of Google algorithm so they do what they know to do the best -They steal. In 1984 they stole from Apple ,in 2010 they are stealing from Google.
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