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Re:Nate Silver: How Much Does Bing Borrow From Google? by blahedo on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @05:36PM (#2172529)
But think about that claim: a result that shows up in Google's results for a popular query also shows up in Bing's results for a popular query.

Maybe because it's a good result? Possibly Bing arrived at it the same way Google did? Or has Google been slipping paper streets into their queries for longer than they're telling us?

In short: how did they know that it was "URLs from Google search results" that they were seeing in the Bing results?

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Re:Nate Silver: How Much Does Bing Borrow From Google? by burgerbrain on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @07:17PM (#2172902)
"Even search results that we would consider mistakes of our algorithms started showing up on Bing."

If it was a popular query, and both google and bing made the same "mistake", doesn't that seem a tad suspicious to you?

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