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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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