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- What are the specifics of the mechanism by which they ended up obviously copying google's results? They said is was user click stream data. User types search
by megaman821 16y ago
- What are the specifics of the mechanism by which they ended up obviously copying google's results?
They said is was user click stream data. User types search into Google, gets results back and clicks link. Microsoft gets sent the search term and link clicked.
- Do they handle clicks from google differently than any other clicks?
Hopefully they do if they are using user clickstream data. Each domain should have something like a page rank to determine how trustworthy it is.
- How different would their results be if they didn't use clicks from google's search as a signal?
Why would they not use Google. Google is a site on the internet where users click links, Microsoft is collecting data from sites on the internet where users click links.
- rflrob 16y ago> Hopefully they do if they are using user clickstream data. Each domain should have something like a page rank to determine how trustworthy it is. If there's some algorithmic reason to believe that Google gives more trustworthy results, that's one thing, and the pagerank weight can be empirically determined. If, on the other hand, there's some point where they explicitly treat google clickthrough data any differently (if site=='google.com' weight+=10), then that seems to have crossed a line. I'm trying and failing not to have this sound like some kind of koan, but if you treat everyone differently in the same way, then that's (arguably) fine. It's only if Google gets some specific attention that it seems more malicious.
- chriseppstein 16y agoWhat if that weight was empirically determined by an algorithm instead of by a human, would it make it OK or should Bing hardcode in a demotion to that google-based data source?