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Re:Bing sets the record straight on recent accusations by Kylekramer on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @04:08PM (#2172136)
This whole debacle is dragging both companies down. Overstatement and intentionally framing the story by Google, vague answers and changing the topic by Microsoft.

Though in the end, Google probably gets a net win cause they got "Microsoft copied us" headlines from some major sources with probably little follow up from the average reader. But the whole situation could have been handled better.

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Re:Bing sets the record straight on recent accusations by georgemcbay on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @11:24PM (#2173581)
I can't speak for the masses but this is a net lose for Google in my eyes because it paints them as being extremely hypocritical IMO.

Keep in mind that we're talking about Google here. The Google of Google News, the web-corpus assisted translation engine, the Google book scanning project, wifi scanning, etc. Not that I'm negative on any of those projects, but based on the amazing degree to which their business piggybacks off the work of others it does make it difficult for me to take them seriously when they come out swinging at somebody else for piggybacking off of them, especially when the piggybacking going on here appears to be fairly minor and incidental.

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