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Old 02-02-11, 22:54   #1
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Default Bing uses Google's search results... Google is mad.

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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.





Basically, Google was deliberately tagging obscure websites with unusual search terms, which subsequently appeared in Bing. The only way this would have happened is if Bing was copying the results Google found.



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Old 02-02-11, 22:58   #2
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Way to go, Microsoft.
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Old 02-02-11, 22:59   #3
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http://www.bing.com/community/site_b...0202_TW013_1x1

Also remember bing is based on yahoo. Anyone remember micro-hoo.
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Old 02-02-11, 23:01   #4
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http://www.bing.com/community/site_b...0202_TW013_1x1

Also remember bing is based on yahoo. Anyone remember micro-hoo.
Liiiiiiieeessss. Liiiieeeessss. Google is God. Period.

But yeah, cool, haven't read that. I hope Google responds... XD
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Old 02-02-11, 23:02   #5
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Hah!

Fantastically humorous.
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Old 02-02-11, 23:02   #6
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LOL, that's too funny
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Old 02-02-11, 23:04   #7
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Bing, "Powered by Google". It does have a nice ring to it.
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Old 02-02-11, 23:07   #8
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http://createasearchengine.appspot.com/

Awesome
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Old 03-02-11, 01:15   #9
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Umm...Bing. They have nice backgrounds, I'll give them that.

It's too bad they have to go and copy Google. I wish Microsoft would just focus on making Windows better and stop wasting their time and money on making phone OSs and search engines.
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Old 03-02-11, 05:34   #10
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So, they're supposed to return different search results? Aren't you supposed to be able to find what you're looking for, regardless of search engine?
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