Re:Nate Silver: How Much Does Bing Borrow From Google?
by barrkel on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @05:44PM
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Measuring click data that gets turned into a correlation between the query string and the result on Google's SERP is copying Google's result, because that's the upshot of it - that is its effect, in these rare long-tail searches.
Re:Nate Silver: How Much Does Bing Borrow From Google?
by erikpukinskis on Thursday February 03, 2011 @12:55AM
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If the toolbar is simply sending "they clicked link X from a page with text 'A B C'" and they are using that in their search engine to mean "If someone searches for A, B, or C, they might be looking for X" then that is, in fact, NOT copying Google's results, it is a general measurement of how users react to ALL web pages.
Re:Nate Silver: How Much Does Bing Borrow From Google?
by mukyu on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @06:49PM
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You have very little actual knowledge of what their experiments entailed.
Re:Nate Silver: How Much Does Bing Borrow From Google?
by erikpukinskis on Thursday February 03, 2011 @12:56AM
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What are you talking about? They wrote an entire blog post about what their experiments entailed.
The trivial addition to their experiment would be to add those nonsense words to a few Wikipedia pages, and click the links with the Bing toolbar installed, and see if those pages show up in the Bing results.