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--- Quote from: Google Blog ---It all started with tarsorrhaphy. Really. As it happens, tarsorrhaphy is a rare surgical procedure on eyelids. And in the summer of 2010, we were looking at the search results for an unusual misspelled query [torsorophy]. Google returned the correct spelling—tarsorrhaphy—along with results for the corrected query. At that time, Bing had no results for the misspelling. Later in the summer, Bing started returning our first result to their users without offering the spell correction (see screenshots below). This was very strange. How could they return our first result to their users without the correct spelling? Had they known the correct spelling, they could have returned several more relevant results for the corrected query.
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reactosguy:
I heard this just today.

I'm pretty sure Ars Technica had an article on this.

reactosguy:
Oh yeah, and Google's accusation was called stupid.

Aloone_Jonez:
Are search results copyrighted?

If not, I say so what? Surely the search engines borrowing results from one another is a good thing.

Lead Head:
Is it really copying? It seems more likely to me that Microsoft is more or less using the Bing Toolbar to help refine Bing by checking what users search for on other search engines, and what results the click on.

I suppose yes it is cheating, but does it really matter?

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