Google Busts Microsoft's Bing

[WillParkinson]

Google Busts Microsoft's Bing

Google has busted Microsoft's Bing for stealing search engine results.

Google first suspected foul play in May 2010. By October 2010, with Bing results beginning to look uncannily like Google's, it knew something had to be done about it -- and so, in true, nerdtastic style, Google set up a sting to prove that Microsoft was actually behind the wholesale mimicry of Google's search results. Google injected "synthetic" results into its search engine -- fake queries and results that no real user or engine would ever generate. Then, on D-Day, December 17, about 20 Google engineers were asked to run the test queries with Internet Explorer 8, Bing Bar and Suggested Sites. By December 31, some of these fake results began appearing on Bing.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/02/google-busts-microsofts-bing.html

[Smashcut]

1. Microsoft is pathetic.

Does anyone actually use Bing?

[DainBramaged]

2. Mac users

[Smashcut]

4. LOL

[sakabatou]

6. Not this one.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

14. well, I did try it for a while, but it seemed

no different than "teh google"

Now i switch from yahoo and teh google.

[gkhouston]

20. Actually, I use ixquick. n/t

[Uben]

3. Never used Bing

I'm a googler!

[NYC Liberal]

7. I don't use mostly because Google works fine for me

Why switch?

I think that's the attitude most people have.

[underseasurveyor]

5. Google is my friend

And mr microsoft is an asshat!

[walldude]

8. Is this a surprise? Gates got rich stealing other peoples

ideas...

[DainBramaged]

9. And what did Steve Jobs do?

Bill Gates stole the idea for a graphical operating system and the mouse from Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, who stole the idea from Xerox

[walldude]

10. And? Was this thread about Jobs? What makes you think

I like him any better than I do Gates? I fucking hate Apple with a white hot passion. As much as I hate Microsoft. So.. what was your point?

On edit: Really, what was your fucking point? Did you post this just to prove something? Your reply had absolutely NOTHING to do with what I posted, your reply mentioned nothing about the OP or Gates, you just came in to start shit or what? It's fucking crap like this pointless shit that makes me want to give up DU for good. Wasting my time with people who's sole purpose is... fuck I can't even figure out what your purpose was.

[DainBramaged]

11. Can I point you to some ice cubes.........

Point, all of these fucks steal.......

but since you're pissed, I'll just slide over to the Obama has 18 illegitimate children thread and read that....

[Dawson Leery]

17. The anti-trust laws need to be aggressively enforced.

[pscot]

18. What anti trust laws?

Teddy Roosevelt has been dead a long time.

[hootinholler]

12. There are some interesting points in the root article...

It's here at searchengineland.com

It appears to be a fringe activity that depending on the specific implementation may or may not represent a theft of services case. If it went to the courts it would be very entertaining for geeks (especially for search geeks like me) and actually interesting, but I suspect the lawyers would fuck up the technical stuff horribly.

It might get as much attention as the Java lawsuit, but that one was far more straightforward. It could also possibly be used to get info from microsoft through discovery.

-Hoot

[Gold Metal Flake]

13. Wierd. Whenever I try Bing it looks just like Yahoo returns.

But I only try it after I try Google and then Yahoo in that order.

[Matariki]

15. Aha. That's why the people I know who work at Bing are in overdrive this week!

I knew something was up. They're all stressed out of their trees.

[pscot]

16. I switched to Bing

when I became creeped out because google seemed to be living in my shorts. I'd search on something and the next web site I visited would show an add related to my recent search activities. That stopped when I quit using Google. I also think Bing gives easier control of what the screen looks like. I use both now, intermittently, and don't see a lot of difference ecxept I don't feel like I'm being followed.

[cbdo2007]

19. Who cares?? Google/Microsoft/Apple are all borrowing (stealing) stuff from each other.