McDaddy Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Google has accused Microsoft of cheating, following an investigation known as the 'Bing Sting'. Google engineers created 100 nonsensical queries such as "hiybbprqag" and inserted a fake result for each. Within weeks, the same results began to appear on its rival Microsoft's Bing search engine. Microsoft denies copying Google and accused Google of conducting "spy-novelesque stunts". Harry Shum, vice president of Bing, said: "We do not copy Google's search results. We use multiple signals and approaches in ranking search results," he added. "Opt-in programs like the toolbar help us with clickstream data, one of many input signals we and other search engines use to help rank sites," he added. more at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12343597 Thoughts on this? Personally i think bing(Microsoft) are trying to copy google:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrill Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 MS aren't as clever as Google (and aren't making as much as Google, nowadays) so they decide to copy them. Pathetic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrawr Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 MS aren't as clever as Google (and aren't making as much as Google, nowadays) so they decide to copy them. Pathetic! They're two completely different companies, so that's not really all that fair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrill Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 They're obviously trying to compete with Google, by bringing out Bing.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richio Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 http://www.neowin.net/news/bing-setting-the-record-straight Read this guys and decide for yourselves, this came out today btw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDaddy Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 http://www.neowin.net/news/bing-setting-the-record-straight Read this guys and decide for yourselves, this came out today btw. Good article there, but i prefer google than bing(MS) microsoft have some good features though, word, excel, powerpoint etc... but overall i prefer google Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ford1001 Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 http://www.neowin.net/news/bing-setting-the-record-straight Read this guys and decide for yourselves, this came out today btw. Good article there, but i prefer google than bing(MS) microsoft have some good features though, word, excel, powerpoint etc... but overall i prefer google exactly, i find that google is the best search engine around, and microsoft has found that someone is finally beating them at something so then they decide to copy them, like thrill said, PATHETIC MICROSOFT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richio Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 I like the open sourceness with google Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaunno Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 To be honest there both very respectable companies and they are obviously getting the job done and satisfying their target markets to be worth billions of dollars. :cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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