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The degree to which Microsoft is copying Google is to a much higher degree. Google did not do an exact "copy/paste" like Microsoft did here. At least Google did
by henryw 16y ago
The degree to which Microsoft is copying Google is to a much higher degree. Google did not do an exact "copy/paste" like Microsoft did here. At least Google did it from scratch.
- gscott 16y agoGoogle started with something, probably by scanning the Yahoo directory and starting from there. If they just pointed Googlebot to one site they would never get the whole web, they had to start from some source with a lot of sites that they could then branch out from.
- lazugod 16y agoAnd depending on the state of Yahoo's (or Lycos' or Altavista's) robots.txt at the time, that may be defendable.