Some mid-Winter drama popped up this week when Google exposed that Microsoft’s Bing actually piggyback’s search results off of Google results. When Google realized this, they actually setup a “sting” operation just to make sure they were correct. You can read the detailed post by Google’s Amit Singhal here, where he actually calls Microsoft out by calling Bing results ”stale” and “a cheap imitation”. Them are fightin’ words!
Microsoft countered with a post of their own, explaining that they learn from their user’s searches to provide a better search result. Microsoft’s explanation doesn’t sound like it holds much water though. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out in coming weeks.
