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Sorry you're right. The other possibility is that bing is scraping the query term and all of the links out of the search page, and correlating them immediately.
by knowtheory 16y ago
Sorry you're right. The other possibility is that bing is scraping the query term and all of the links out of the search page, and correlating them immediately. That means they're totally susceptible to google bombing (which is in effect what google did).
The key question is whether they have special rules in place for google. I am indeed presuming that if i were using the same tools google did on my personal website, i would not achieve the same result.
- radicaldreamer 16y agoEven if they are susceptible to Google bombing, I don't think Google would reduce the quality of it's results for real searches because of this. Bing probably has a ranking algorithm saying that links from google.com search pages have x weight and links from facebook profiles are valued at some other value etc.
- msg 16y agoThey're not just susceptible to Google bombing. They are at the mercy of some easy to automate SEO with the bing toolbar installed. If I were a black hat I'd install the bing toolbar, craft some perhaps human looking Selenium code, and start the clicking. Over a period of a few weeks I'd be owning the top results in Bing.
- timtim 16y agoI have seen some iMacros scripts for this in the past, also for the Google toolbar. Does it help to improve ranking? I dunno.
- zizee 16y agoI think that you have identified the biggest flaw with Microsoft's approach. They are also susceptible to Google "poisoning" the well, by creating a bot-net to provide fake data to Bing.