<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Jan 9, 2016, at 4:07 AM, Paul Johnson <<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">In this case, though, Microsoft was actually directly copying Google's search results, and directly admitted to it. <a href="http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-our-search-results-62914">http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-our-search-results-62914</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">That situation is actually closer to being analogous to taking a copy of Walden and crossing out Henry David Thoreau's name and writing in your own.</div></div></blockquote><br><div>Microsoft wasn't copying the search results per se, it was recording the link clicked in response to a search. The Google ranking wasn't the interesting information for Bing, it was the user action, and recording that would record Google's unusual honeypot result links as a byproduct. (The press did a poor job explaining this.)</div><div><br></div></body></html>