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Re:Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on... by thomasahle on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:26AM (#15337985)
Maybe Bing is still doing this: http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-... In that case, the hacker news interest would probably get the page included in Bing, but it would take some time before everyone would start seeing it.
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Re:Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on... by throwawaykf09 on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:56AM (#15338174)
Did you try the search on both Bing and Google? Looked very different for Bing and Google.

Also, that accusation was purely a PR play by Google that IMO Bing refuted convincingly: http://searchengineland.com/bing-why-googles-wrong-in-its-ac...

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Re:Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on... by bduerst on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:30PM (#15340798)
> was purely a PR play

Bing said they were using internet explorer to monitor users's activity and copy search results. They're still copying Google search results, just doing it through IE.

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Re:Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on... by kappel on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @02:23PM (#15341306)
When did tracking users become equivalent to copying Google search results?
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Re:Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search on... by wdr1 on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @12:18AM (#15344889)
Watching what a user types into Google & using the Google result is pretty much textbook copying.
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