Microsoft's Bing uses Google search results

[ufis]

source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-google-search.html

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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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[ponder]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/02/02/google.bing.sting/index.html

He shrugged off Google's sting as "a creative tactic by a competitor, and we'll take it as a back-handed compliment.
-Harry Shum, Microsoft

 

[ToxicBunny]

I wouldn't necessarily say Bing is using Googles search results, but more taking a page from Google and correcting "issues" with their results.

 

[Merlin]

I wouldn't necessarily say Bing isn't using Googles search results, but they are taking a page from Google and causing "issues" with their stolen results.

Similar to that then? ^

 

[ToxicBunny]

Similar, but subtly different

 

[Creag]

Why wouldn't Bing want to crib Google's search results ... and vice versa?

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Bing?

BONG!