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If it's beneath Google to complain about Microsoft riding on its coattails for the highly valuable "long tail" of queries, surely it's beneath Microsoft to sue

If it's beneath Google to complain about Microsoft riding on its coattails for the highly valuable "long tail" of queries, surely it's beneath Microsoft to sue Android manufacturers for competing in the smartphone space? http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8b1ecaa2-cdb2-11df-9c82-00144feab49a.html http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8b1ecaa2-cdb2-11df-9c82-00144feab4... Would it have been better if Google had jumped straight to the questionable lawsuit part, like every other company seems to do when threatened on its own turf?

alain94040 16y ago
Let me try to understand what happened. For some obscure searches that return no results normally, a handful of users searched on Google using IE's toolbar and then clicked on bogus results. Those bogus results made it to Bing's results eventually. Ok... So it proves Microsoft analyzes the toolbar behavior and when it has no other data, it will therefore look like a copy of Google search. Sounds fair to me. Do you want to get into a discussion on how exactly Google tracks you online?
- contextfree 16y ago
  "Those bogus results made it to Bing's results eventually." ... in 7-9% of cases.
  - poacher69 16y ago
    in 7-9% of the times google tried to spam bing. not in 7-9% of search results. this indicates that maybe google isn't that great at figuring out how to spam bing or that bing is pretty good at defending agains spam. maybe google could take some lessons from bing on cleaning up spam and problem that seems all to prevelant on google these days.