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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:)

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MS aren't as clever as Google (and aren't making as much as Google, nowadays) so they decide to copy them. Pathetic! :o

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MS aren't as clever as Google (and aren't making as much as Google, nowadays) so they decide to copy them. Pathetic! :o

They're two completely different companies, so that's not really all that fair.

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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 :o

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

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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:

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