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Bing didn't crawl Google's pages (so never reads a robots.txt file), they are collecting click stream data from users via the Bing toolbar as they browse a page
by SimonPStevens 16y ago
Bing didn't crawl Google's pages (so never reads a robots.txt file), they are collecting click stream data from users via the Bing toolbar as they browse a page.
It's voluntary, you can opt out of the anonymous data reporting. The data they are using belongs to the user, so it's the user that can opt out, not Google.