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Individually, it negligible. Cumulatively, the time spent by the many thousands (millions?) of users who are clicking links they deem relevant for queries all o

• haberman 16y ago
  > My point is that the assertion that Google are doing all the work in creating the data used by Bing is clearly false. Clearly it's not 100%, but what percentage is it? The user ends up visiting 1 out 1T possible URLs. Google narrowed it down from 1T to 10 URLs (11 orders of magnitude). The user narrowed it down from 10 to 1 URLs (1 order of magnitude). Even if you measure this logarithmically, Google did 91% of the work, and the user did 9%. And the Microsoft people are arguing that it's totally justified because of that 9%. Or you could measure it linearly, and argue that Google did 99.999999999% of the work because that's the percentage of the results they eliminated. Either way, this is an extremely weak justification for taking a result of which 91% came from your direct competitor (when measured in the most charitable way).
• Herring 16y ago
  those millions of users are all searching on platforms where 99%+ of the work was already done by the site's own engineers. Cmon, this isn't rocket science.