News - Google accuses Bing of stealing results

[HEXUS]

Microsoft denies claim, but Google continues to cry foul.

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[TheAnimus]

But don't google collect results in the same way from chrome?

at least with the bing one you have to be stupid enough to install the toolbar and check the unchecked default option.

I can't really see what he is moaning about here, because all they have done is to refine their result ordering by customer clicks. Now even if the website is discovered by google, thats fair game, I doubt highly that they would bother scraping the google results intionally, but the factor that someone makes a query, gets a set of results and the is satisified with a link is a very useful metric. This is on EVERY site not just google.

[Hicks12]

But don't google collect results in the same way from chrome?

at least with the bing one you have to be stupid enough to install the toolbar and check the unchecked default option.

I can't really see what he is moaning about here, because all they have done is to refine their result ordering by customer clicks. Now even if the website is discovered by google, thats fair game, I doubt highly that they would bother scraping the google results intentionally, but the factor that someone makes a query, gets a set of results and the is satisfied with a link is a very useful metric. This is on EVERY site not just google.

I was just about the say the bit on chrome , as i believer it is the same as what MS are doing but you cant opt out.

Hypocrites google are to be honest as it is a legitimate way of improving... called market research

[BullDogg]

From the SearchEngineLand article:

Google has its own Google Toolbar, as well as its Chrome browser. So I asked Google. Does it do the same type of monitoring that it believes Bing does, to improve Google’s search results?

“Absolutely not. The PageRank feature sends back URLs, but we’ve never used those URLs or data to put any results on Google’s results page. We do not do that, and we will not do that,” said Singhal.

So apparently Chrome doesn't do it. Or at least, they don't tell you about it.

[oolon]

So apparently Chrome doesn't do it. Or at least, they don't tell you about it.

Does the person answering the question know the answer to it. Google is so big the quite well could have done something like that without all the management knowing.

[MarshellaSmith]

We don't know the actual truth...so, let them fight. We can use blekko or AAfter Search for better privacy.