[OSM-talk] Not sure what to think

[Bryce Cogswell]

> On Jan 9, 2016, at 4:07 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> In this case, though, Microsoft was actually directly copying Google's search results, and directly admitted to it.  http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-our-search-results-62914
> 
> 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.

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.)

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