Bing accused of stealing Googles search results

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Meh, no one that knows what they're doing uses bing anyway.

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#3  Edited By melcene

What I want to know is if they tried the same experiment with any other search providers, and what the results were. 
 
I just used Yahoo to look up one of their search results...  [juegosdeben1ogrande]  and got the exact same first result that both Bing and Google got.

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#4  Edited By Skytylz

I've heard that Bing is starting to give better results than Google, but I never use it so who knows.

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#5  Edited By hexx462
@Everyones_A_Critic said:
" Meh, no one uses bing anyway. "
It's gained traction since it was made the default search engine on IE. That should read "Meh, no one that knows what they're doing uses bing anyway".
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#6  Edited By damnboyadvance

Am I supposed to be mad at Microsoft? I mean, who cares?

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#7  Edited By nemt

Google is quickly becoming as much of a crybaby company as Apple.  
 
Also I like how TC considers speculation from Google themselves "proof" of wrongdoing against Google.
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#8  Edited By arkasai

The circumstances surrounding it are a little shaky...like the fact that you have to have be using IE and have search recommendations turned on, while using the Bing toolbar.  Though the way they proved it was pretty cleaver, they basically proved that MS was somehow using the data they were collecting through those search toolbars to improve their search results, often giving you the identical pages returned on a google search.

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@Skytylz said:
" I've heard that Bing is starting to give better results than Google, but I never use it so who knows. "
BLASPHEMY! 
 
Bing looks disgusting, so I will never use it. Likewise for everything that isn't Google.
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#11  Edited By Azteck
@GetEveryone said:
" @Skytylz said:
" I've heard that Bing is starting to give better results than Google, but I never use it so who knows. "
BLASPHEMY!  Bing looks disgusting, so I will never use it. Likewise for everything that isn't Google. "
Yup, agreed. I really just dislike how the thing looks, and how it displays results.  It's not nearly as straight-forward as Google.
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#12  Edited By danimal_furry

From what I read, it was less of an accusation and more a proven fact.

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#13  Edited By nemt

Google, the largest advertising company in the history of the world, is accusing others of misusing customer data.
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#14  Edited By melcene

See that's exactly why I can't use Google.  It's so bland.  Nothing but a search box.  I prefer Yahoo.

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#15  Edited By iam3green

meh o well. i don't use bing at all. o well, i'm not surprised microsoft steals ideas all the time. the mii's say hi to the avatars.

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#16  Edited By jking47

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery I guess.
Google had a clever little experiment there that the Bing.com blog didn't refute at all. "Anonymous click stream data" from 20 google engineers really wouldn't move these unrelated sites to the top of these near gibberish searches.

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#17  Edited By Vinchenzo

Bing commercials blow. Talk about trying too hard...

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#18  Edited By Origina1Penguin

Bing is okay for some stuff, but it has horrible image results for very specific searches. By the way, I'm not assuming MS is guilty of anything just because a competitor says they are. I don't really know enough about search engine coding to say one way or another.