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Re:Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results–and denies it... by randyrand on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @12:09PM (#17810860)
Bing and Google get their search results by scraping websites that other people own. For bing, google is just one of the website they scrape.

So probably not illegal - though it definitely looks bad.

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Re:Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results–and denies it... by engrefoobiz on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @12:13PM (#17810897)
There's a difference in a search engine scraping a site just to link to that site. And scraping a site to claim its content as your own.
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