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I'm pretty sure microsoft doesn't care... They're capturing what users click on, which doesn't include any information about the wishes of the website owner.

• mooism2 16y ago
  Given the case of misspellings, Bing appear to associate what the user types into a text box with the link they subsequently follow. I think this counts as extracting information from the Google results page. <meta name=robots> is designed to prevent search engines automatically extracting information from web pages. By involving a human in the process, Bing are (presumably) avoiding this rule. Is this a good thing? I accept that Bing don't access the page content itself, so wouldn't be able to see the <meta> tag if it was there.