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Re:Nate Silver: How Much Does Bing Borrow From Google? by noibl on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @05:23PM (#2172479)
Rankings analysis always starts with keywords of interest, even though Google can be used to identify keywords by relation. Referrer logs seeding outside sources with gibberish keywords that literally nobody is interested in? That's a stretch.
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Re:Nate Silver: How Much Does Bing Borrow From Google? by gojomo on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @05:31PM (#2172507)
I'm not saying this is specifically how the gibberish Google probes landed in Bing; I'm saying this is a way that, even for popular queries, Google's ranking judgements and unique results are going to slowly diffuse out over time, and be echoed elsewhere, even without URL-trail mining (which shortcuts/supercharges the process).
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Re:Nate Silver: How Much Does Bing Borrow From Google? by noibl on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @05:39PM (#2172548)
Fair enough. I agree that naive indexers will make lots of crude and meaningless associations. I don't think Bing falls into that category though.
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