Google catches Microsoft with their pants down (Bing is leeching Google's search results)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-our-search-results-62914

To verify its suspicions, Google set up a sting operation. For the first time in its history, Google crafted one-time code that would allow it to manually rank a page for a certain term (code that will soon be removed, as described further below). It then created about 100 of what it calls “synthetic” searches, queries that few people, if anyone, would ever enter into Google.

These searches returned no matches on Google or Bing — or a tiny number of poor quality matches, in a few cases — before the experiment went live. With the code enabled, Google placed a honeypot page to show up at the top of each synthetic search.

The only reason these pages appeared on Google was because Google forced them to be there. There was nothing that made them naturally relevant for these searches. If they started to appeared at Bing after Google, that would mean that Bing took Google’s bait and copied its results.

This all happened in December. When the experiment was ready, about 20 Google engineers were told to run the test queries from laptops at home, using Internet Explorer, with Suggested Sites and the Bing Toolbar both enabled. They were also told to click on the top results. They started on December 17. By December 31, some of the results started appearing on Bing.

Here’s an example, which is still working as I write this, hiybbprqag at Google:



and the same exact match at Bing:



(More at link)

[Maru Kitteh]

1. bing blows. n/t

[Tikki]

5. It sure does.....

and I wonder why it is so far off...What a FAIL.


Tikki

[Codeine]

2. HAHAHA! That's quite brilliant, actually.

Well played, Google.

[justiceischeap]

3. Not surprising. M$ ripped off Apple in the beginning too. nt

[KansasVoter]

7. And Apple ripped off Xerox!

[Dogmudgeon]

4. I laughed so hard I hurt my Hiybbprqag!

:rofl:

--d!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. You should go see a mbzrxpgjys ASAP.

You don't want to get a indoswiftjobinproduction.

[azurnoir]

6. good Bing is at best annoying , I avoid it atall costs n/t

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. Don't forget Microsoft users to download that security mega file for

Internet Exploder........

Fricking Microsoft

[Electric Monk]

9. Yet another reason to shun everything microsoft

hiybbprqag ftw :bounce: