Dr. Feelgood Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Microsoft's search engine Bing is copying results from Google, the dominant search engine on the internet, has claimed. Suspicious of their new rival, Google engineers set up random results on their site for a series of unlikely search terms, such as "hiybbprqag." (Google arranged for the nonsense word to point to a Los Angeles theater seating plan on its search engine.) "Within a couple weeks of starting this experiment, our inserted results started appearing in Bing," Google said in a statement on its official blog Tuesday. Google said it welcomed honest competition, but sneered at Bing's "recycled search results from a competitor." http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/02/02/google.bing.sting/index.html?hpt=T2 Your thoughts? I'm a big fan of Google and use it as my search engine, it's even my homepage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Swish* Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 GOOGLE FTW. Bing is a wanna be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JYD Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 And we would care.......why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Feelgood Posted February 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Well, we discussed about which search engine we preferred in the past, so I thought people would be interested. If you're not interested, don't post in the topic to just post by not adding anything to said topic. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JYD Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Well, we discussed about which search engine we preferred in the past, so I thought people would be interested. If you're not interested, don't post in the topic to just post by not adding anything to said topic.I just didn't understand why you or anyone else cared. That is all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenneral Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 I just didn't understand why you or anyone else cared. That is all.Because they're a separate company stealing another companies work? Is that good enough? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JYD Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Because they're a separate company stealing another companies work? Is that good enough?Yeah that's perfect, thanks bud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Feelgood Posted February 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 It took that for you to understand? I guess I should have dummy proofed it first. I'm only kidding man, no hard feelings. I just thought it was an interesting article, especially because I've heard other people (not here) say that Bing was a better search engine than Google and I wanted to see what others thought about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guru Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Wow this is interesting. I'm actually taking a class in which we are covering search engines right now. This proves further how Google has taken over in my opinion. But while Bing may be recycling results, you definitely get a few different results from the two engines. For example, try this: Search your full name with quotation marks on Google. Record how many of the results are actually of you (first 3 pages) and how many total results the search yielded. Next try the same thing with Bing or Yahoo. Most likely you will get different results. (Depending on your name) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s.t.a.t. Posted February 4, 2011 Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 so Because Its Not Google actually kind of is Google now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish7718 Posted February 4, 2011 Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 (edited) Hiybbprqag may be the coolest word ever. I'm gonna go google it now Edited February 4, 2011 by fish7718 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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