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This doesn't answer anything! Did he seriously accuse Google of participating in click fraud? Wow, every response from MS is lowering my respect for the Bing te
by jameskilton 16y ago
This doesn't answer anything! Did he seriously accuse Google of participating in click fraud? Wow, every response from MS is lowering my respect for the Bing team. Google may be wrong in their findings, and Bing may not be directly copying results, but now we're down to just mud slinging instead of just being up front about what probably happened.
- brudgers 16y agoWhether it was a type of attack also known as “click fraud,” or not, it does appear to be an attack. One can argue that the attack was justified - and one can argue that it's not - but it still was a deliberate effort to improve page rank in a way similar to one which Google actively discourages. The fact that only 7/100 of the honeypots were successful may mean that Google's motives may have been more complex - such as determining how and to what degree Bing handles "click fraud" type attacks. I just have a hard time believing that Google would turn 20 engineers loose on a task that can be so easily automated.