“Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then uses that information to improve Bing’s own search listings,” Danny Sullivan reports for Search Engine Land. “Bing doesn’t deny this.”
“As a result of the apparent monitoring, Bing’s relevancy is potentially improving (or getting worse) on the back of Google’s own work,” Sullivan reports. “Google likens it to the digital equivalent of Bing leaning over during an exam and copying off of Google’s test.”
“‘I’ve spent my career in pursuit of a good search engine,’ says Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow who oversees the search engine’s ranking algorithm,” Sullivan reports. “‘I’ve got no problem with a competitor developing an innovative algorithm. But copying is not innovation, in my book,’ Singhal said… ‘It’s cheating to me because we work incredibly hard and have done so for years but they just get there based on our hard work. I don’t know how else to call it but plain and simple cheating. Another analogy is that it’s like running a marathon and carrying someone else on your back, who jumps off just before the finish line.’”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Aw, you don’t like being ripped off by an inferior company, Google? Apple doesn’t either.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dev” for the heads up.]
Doesn’t google sell access to everybody’s content?
Mees hits it right in the nail. LOL
Bing is “open” and Google is a “closed garden” if I have ever seen one.
Take some karma right in the kisser Google!!!
I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!…that one of these companies would copy from others.
Who the heck uses Bing anyhow? I use Google and Yahoo for most everything. Bing – another Microsoft waste of resources and marketing. Imagine if they focused all their engineers and developers towards making Window’s a modern 21st century OS, and did the same with Office, and their Server and Exchange platforms too. Instead, they waste time and effort with peripheral crap like phones, Bing, keyboards, and other stuff that has nothing to do with their core business. expanding beyond the core business means learning from what others have done, not copying it, and then selecting a market to enter – like Apple has done.
Aw, maybe they can wipe their tears on fagboy schmidt’s pink shirt. Fscking crybabies. Boo hoo!
The words pot, kettle and black come to mind.
@ Steve516,
Hate to break this to you, but Yahoo searches go right to Bing’s search engine and, apparently, right to Google’s answers.
And Google was surprised to find Microsoft copying Google’s results?
Tigers don’t change their stripes.
@ Al:
So IOW, it really doesn’t matter which search engine you use, it’s all Google results anyway?
Although I guess if you use another search engine, Google doesn’t get the ad money.
Wow, just wow. To say that with a straight face…
Oh, I thought he was talking about Android.
As long as bing is stealing from google, I’m using bing. (switching safari’s search now) How does it feel to be on the recieving end of that shaft, eh google? >:)
Now where did that web engine come from that Chrome is based on (yet they don’t contribute back)? Ahmmmm…
Where did the Android interface of a multiple pages of full-screen icons come from? Ahmmmm…
Where did the Google search engine idea and interface come from? Cough… AltaVista…
Innovation means improvement, not just copying.
one word…Kharma
I had to laugh at this Google quote. Especially because it is about Microsoft. Ohhh the irony! lol
“‘I’ve got no problem with a competitor developing an innovative algorithm. But copying is not innovation, in my book”
Okay.
Bing! and violate IP.
Have a little temper tantrum Moleboy…
Is this that “rich neighbor – television set” thing again??
“But copying is not innovation, in my book,’ Singhal said… ‘It’s cheating to me because we work incredibly hard and have done so for years but they just get there based on our hard work. I don’t know how else to call it but plain and simple cheating. Another analogy is that it’s like running a marathon and carrying someone else on your back, who jumps off just before the finish line.’” “
Yet another analogy would be: “Apple has a really cool GUI. Let’s turn it upside down and backwards and call it ‘Windows’!”
Whaaaaat!?
But Google is all about being open and free! How could they possibly have a problem with Bing copying the results from their search engine!? They’re champions of the FOSS community, this must be some sort of mistake!
What!!?? You guys thought only you had the privilege to copy others?? Nooooo… Let otherss copy toooo.
Aaaahahahahahahahah!!!
@iThinker
“what comes around, goes around Gagle boys”
The thing here is that Microsoft has been “going around”!! a long while now.
“It’s like running a marathon and carrying someone else on your back, who jumps off just before the finish line.”
Amit, now the only thing you are left to say is…. “There you go!!”
Keep it up my friend!!
I wish people here grew up a bit. We should thank Google for entering the Phone market. If they didn’t you would get that complete sh*t from MickySoft guys. That’s what happend to Windows platform and that what would inevitably happen to the mobile phones.
Microsoft has been copying (literally) others ever since they started. That’s all they know. Google created their own platform and they are very innovative. So stop bashing Google for no reason.
These days “truth” is more imaginary than ever.
But when someone is able to collect results like this, blatant robbery of information by Microsoft from a competitor, Google, there is a very comfortable level of certainty calling the crook a crook.
Microsoft continue to be a criminal organization who have once again deliberately stolen data, just as they stole Apple QuickTime code back in 1997.
What is there to say but:
1) Microsoft are a detriment to all computer users.
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2) Anyone believing better of Microsoft is extremely foolish.
–>There are many of us who have been pointing out Microsoft’s bad biznizz behavior and crimes against the computer community for DECADES. Listen, learn and benefit.