Google catches Bing copying search results

[aj_the_kidd]

captaincranky said:
So now, why don't cha all go back to torrenting copyrighted programs, games, movies, and music, free of charge, and leave Google and Bing alone to fight it out amongst themselves.

I yi Captain, arrrrrrh

 

[Archean]

I remember reading few years ago that Google it self used four (I think, correct me if I am wrong please) different tools to track user surfing/searches:

- Google toolbar (which does pretty much the same as Bing Tool bar may be more who knows)
- Google Desktop
- Gmail
- Google web accelerator

Now if MS is using Bing Toolbar to track such data, I wonder how this exonerate Google of the same crime in the first place. I think such claptrap is coming norm in despicable way so I wouldn't bother with Google's shenanigans.

 

[captaincranky]

Yup, if you hit Google docs, there's your Gmail address, staring you in the face.

 

[Archean]

Well something even worse is, Google's toolbar has pretty damn good 'spying' capabilities built into it, which would continue to send every search you do (even the one executed on other search engines like Bing/Yahoo etc.), or every url you visit (with complete address down to even the picture(s) you may see on that page) to the Google even when you've disabled it ........ I couldn't find anything whether Google have corrected this, but frankly I doubt that they will do it. Now I've never installed any toolbars as such on any of my PCs/, and I am baffled that what kind of people would do it and for what reasons.

Note: Also, now that they have their own browser, I wouldn't be surprised if something of this sort is actually is in-built into it.

 

[Archean]

Captain, your avatar look much more funnier on cell

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[Guest]

I tested it. I tried putting in the same nonsense words in both searches, and I got different results.

 

[TJGeezer]

macgyver56 said:
I believe Google. They created a very nice test case to determine whether Bing is 'sucking' results off Google. Based on the setup and the outcome, Bing does not seem to be truly searching the internet. They're searching other search engines. Might as well cut out the middleman and just use Google.

Actually, they're tweaking their findings based on data sent in voluntarily by IE users. No doubt Google does the same with clicks by Chrome users, whether or not they make that user feedback voluntary the way Microsoft does with its feedback.

I've never been a big fan of Microsoft, with their predatory practices, and I rarely use IE - but geez, people, pick your battles. Or are you saying Google ignores click-thru data from IE users? Once you set up an outlier sting, as Microsoft described it, how many clicks would it take to link those nonsense letters to a site? Any ten Google partisans with copies of IE set to send data to Bing who knew about the "sting" wouldn't need genuine users to make the connection for Bing. There probably weren't any, not with that unlikely search term.

Looks to me like a Google con job, not a "very nice test," and I don't see how Google comes out of this looking better than Microsoft. Just looks like sleazy PR to me.