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Great observation about Wikipedia's behavior. Wow, it turns out that Google isn't the only one who can correct spelling errors! Who knew?
by jdp23 16y ago
Great observation about Wikipedia's behavior. Wow, it turns out that Google isn't the only one who can correct spelling errors! Who knew?
- brudgers 16y agoAccording to the Searchengineland.com story, the smoking gun is that Bing does not offer a correction for "torsoraphy" yet returns the Wikipedia article. http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-our-search-results-62914 http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-... But the difference is really in what they do after they get the results from Wikipedia. Google searches for the term returned by the Wikimedia engine and offers it as the intended spelling. Per the screenshots, Bing returns the Wikipedia page, a page related to it's contents (long island surgery) and the results from Amazon (plus whatever else isn't shown). Bing appears to offer broader searches when faced with ambiguity, whereas Google takes the results of the Wikimedia engine as gospel.
- thelema314 16y agoI don't think either google nor bing searches for the term in wikimedia. I think google spent time finding this misspelling, and bing is sitting on the shoulders of a giant, capturing the same effect with their clickstream analysis.