Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it

[the_poet]

By now, you may have read Danny Sullivan’s recent post: “Google: Bing is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results” and heard Microsoft’s response, “We do not copy Google's results.” However you define copying, the bottom line is, these Bing results came directly from Google.

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[labrocca]

This story has been circulating for a few weeks. Bing denies it all but the evidence is there. Google took their time and did their research before making the accusation. I'm sure legal dept. was all over this.

 

[HostMantis]

Before this was even announced, I was doing some searches on Google and Bing for the same keywords and was surprised that the results were the EXACT same.

Is Bing is copying Google or Google is copying Bing?

I think we all know the obvious answer to that question...

 

[webeguy]

I was playing with Bing last week and comparing it to Google for a some key words and I got the exact same results.

 

[renek]

Perhaps google should set up an affiliate search engine API.

 

[HostMantis]

Perhaps google should set up an affiliate search engine API.

Don't they already, using Adsense?