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> The first user consented to his click analysis by installing the toolbar. The toolbar says nothing about taking his data to improve Bing, only for Site-Sugge
by joesb 16y ago
> The first user consented to his click analysis by installing the toolbar.
The toolbar says nothing about taking his data to improve Bing, only for Site-Suggestion which, to average user, is clearly a browser feature.
> Google doesn't lose a customer because the second searcher was already on Bing to begin with.
What about one who could have converted to Google if he search on Bing and didn't find a result?
Google couldn't lose a customer but there's no way Google would gain a conversion from Bing in this situation.
> Bing does nothing but analyze their own users' behavior
Assuming that this is a search result that Bing wouldn't have found by itself, then this "user behavior" wouldn't have occurred for Bing to capture had Google not exist.
Without Google each user can then probably only have behavior of clicking same old web site they have collected from long ago, there's no search engine for them to learn new relevant site easily.
- encoderer 16y agoDon't take it personally that I'm not going to "line by line" your comment the way you did mine -- I'm pretty busy today. But the issue is, my clickstream is mine. If I chose to share it with somebody -- Bing, Google, My Mom -- it's my choice. If I, as a user, don't want Bing to have access to my clickstream, I won't install their toolbar. But if I do, it's not Google's business.
- indyank 16y agoThe issue is simple..google uses all its heavy resources to rank that startup as #1. (good or bad).But bing just uses their toolbar to capture that information and rank them. They call this "cost cutting".Doesn't this sound cheap?