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It doesn't improve the common good. Bing is not adding value with this method - they are thieving value. By thieving it they reduce the reward for the value t
by grovulent 16y ago
It doesn't improve the common good.
Bing is not adding value with this method - they are thieving value. By thieving it they reduce the reward for the value that google provides. As such they reduce the incentive to provide genuine innovation.
Having said that - I don't necessarily disagree with the view that Google's position is a bit rich given the data that they do harvest from us folk without remunerating us for that work. But that doesn't make the argument against Bing any weaker. Two wrongs n rights n all that.
- true_religion 16y agoWhat data does Google harvest without renumeration? When it comes to PageRank, the implicit offer is: Allow google to use your links (intra-site and extra-site) in its algorithm, and it will make your site searchable via Google. If you don't want Google to use your 'hard work' of collating and vetting links to other sites, then disallow the Googlebot via robots.txt On the other hand, Microsoft refuses to allow anyway to disallow click traffic patterns involving your site to be used in its algorithm. They are thus mining the links from your site to another without even having to renumerate you by giving you a chance to be indexed in their engine.
- wnoise 16y ago> Microsoft refuses to allow anyway to disallow click traffic patterns involving your site Because that information doesn't belong to the site to which it is associated, but to the user.
- grovulent 16y agoThat's a good point. I didn't really have a clear view on that matter. I just wanted to emphasise that however that discussion bore out - it is irrelevant to the argument against Bing.