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Bing steals search results from Google

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yahurd:
Google's whining because it's dominance is being threatened.

They can't copyright specific search functions, and can't feasibly, FEASIBLY putting a notice, "by using the search function, you are indeed not another search engine RIPPING US OFF..."

Besides it seems to me this would already be pretty commonplace amongst the search industry...

If 2 people have databases for the search  "online games" numbering in roughly 600,000 and only half are similar, both benefit by combining them into a search with 900,000 or a million+ views, the only thing that happens is the dominant one slightly loses an edge.

Which is nothing if they both get a boost, but when your strategy RELIES on being dominant, and you can't afford to lose the edge over another company, is when you'll have problems, but cause bigger problems as this hurts the user, who will eventually go elsewhere.

piratePenguin:
Bing would benefit by explaining this behavior pronto rather than have people guessing about what they're doing, and what they think of it.

But indeed I don't think this is such a terrible thing.

I doubt copyright is the answer here as Google and such companies have 99999999x more to benefit without it's use on the open web! (and so do you)

davidnix71:
Google's default auto "correction" is annoying. It prevents correct searches many times.
I want to scream obscenitites at the @ssh0l3 who keeps asking me "Did you mean xyz"
This forces me to -this -that -the other repeatedly to get the search correct.

Bing sux BTW compared to Google. Yahoo is worse.

Aloone_Jonez:
It's pretty easy to bypass the autocorect.

I like it because it's the only thing which can correct my crappy spelling.

reactosguy:
I agree that Google is playing another game of dominance. If one chess champion doesn't give a heck about losing to a university computer, why does Google complain about losing search results?

Copied search results won't make Google lose money, but really whining about it costs you in the long term. It's obvious why Google is whining: they don't want Microsoft to take over.

I've read Linux Evangelism, and the guy who runs this site reported on this and complained how Microsoft is still using their copycat tactic. Epic fail...

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