Re:Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results
by encoderer on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @11:47AM
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No, it's a product. Come on. Every product is a "test" of the market so in that one definition of "test", yes. But not in an academic sense, which is what you meant. Because only in an academic sense does the concept of "cheating" exist.
Google has worked out their algorithms for processing the incoming data and generating an answer. Bing has apparently used Google's answer as a comparison to whether they are getting it right or not and when not, subbing in the other answer.
While in business this may not be illegal, is it still very much 'Not knowing the correct answer to the test'.