Technology Microsoft's Bing uses Google search results - and denies it

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By now, you may have read Danny Sullivan’s recent post: “Google: Bing is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results” and heard Microsoft’s response, “We do not copy Google's results.” However you define copying, the bottom line is, these Bing results came directly from Google.

I’d like to give you some background and details of our experiments that lead us to understand just how Bing is using Google web search results.

It all started with tarsorrhaphy. Really. As it happens, tarsorrhaphy is a rare surgical procedure on eyelids. And in the summer of 2010, we were looking at the search results for an unusual misspelled query [torsorophy]. Google returned the correct spelling—tarsorrhaphy—along with results for the corrected query. At that time, Bing had no results for the misspelling. Later in the summer, Bing started returning our first result to their users without offering the spell correction (see screenshots below). This was very strange. How could they return our first result to their users without the correct spelling? Had they known the correct spelling, they could have returned several more relevant results for the corrected query.

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Oh boy, e-business feud! Time for a major hacker war.
 
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I don't use Bing anyways. I think it sucks. Which is why every time I get on a browser, I double check I'm using Google searches. Been a Google fan ever since I figured out [del]that I could find porn on Google Images[/del] that Google existed.
 
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phyrex1an said:
Google's argument pretty much boils down to "You're not allowed to share what sites you like with Microsoft if you find these sites using Google".
I share what I want with who I want.
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it's sharing what google results you selected after searching for X, and then moving those results over to bing - you share the secret to google's sucess with its competitor and expect google to stay silent?

either way, bing sucks.. even copying google's results won't bring it up to par
 
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what's a bing???



Seriously though who actually uses bing... Microsoft and yahoo more or less wasted money for no reason. you can't compete with google, just give up.
 
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Jedimindtrixxx said:
what's a bing???



Seriously though who actually uses bing... Microsoft and yahoo more or less wasted money for no reason. you can't compete with google, just give up.
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Well actually Yahoo was first famous before Google did. Yahoo is good too btw.
 
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Sevion said:
I don't use Bing anyways. I think it sucks. Which is why every time I get on a browser, I double check I'm using Google searches. Been a Google fan ever since I figured out [del]that I could find porn on Google Images[/del] that Google existed.
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You sir, made me giggle :)

I don't know anyone using bing, even technically retarded friends and family, they all just google.
 
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Wait wait wait. I got a better one. Non-Google Search Toolbar :D

But seriously. Competition is great and all, but... right now it's like comparing a Lamborghini Gallardo with a Ricer Ford Focus D: You gotta at least have a Lotus Elise :-/
 
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Rock-Paper-Scissors, anyone? Google -> Bing -> Yahoo!, possibly Yahoo! -> Google...
 
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So yahoo uses bing results and bing uses google results.... Sounds like google owns the world to me, pretty soon they will start charging us to use the world google lol
 
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