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Re:How a Fake Island Landed on Google Earth by pc86 on Thursday April 18, 2013 @04:48PM (#5572982)
Google did something similar to prove that Bing was just copying SERPs if I remember correctly.
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Re:How a Fake Island Landed on Google Earth by scottru on Thursday April 18, 2013 @05:03PM (#5573077)
That's right - they seeded nonsense queries with very specific results. Working assumption is that Bing was integrating clickstream data (either from ISPs or from the MSN Toolbar) into their results.

http://www.wired.com/business/2011/02/bing-copies-google/

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