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Re:Nate Silver: How Much Does Bing Borrow From Google? by noibl on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @05:01PM (#2172368)
My point was that the algorithmic conclusion 'oh well, let's just print it anyway, since it's from Google' is pretty weighty on its own.
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Re:Nate Silver: How Much Does Bing Borrow From Google? by muro on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @05:22PM (#2172473)
While we have no idea why this result is good, Google seems to think it's fine. If it's good enough for google, it's good enough for us.
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Re:Nate Silver: How Much Does Bing Borrow From Google? by JoelSutherland on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @05:38PM (#2172546)
"Since it's from Google" is an unproven assertion. They may do this for other data sources as well in similar circumstances.
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Re:Nate Silver: How Much Does Bing Borrow From Google? by noibl on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @05:53PM (#2172614)
I didn't assert that they don't. I asserted that they only had one data source in that case.

Whether they throw up new SERPs in reaction to data from other single sources might be interesting. But if true, it's also not very complimentary.

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