The problem with using an analogy to prove a point is that the analogy is nearly always a poor fit for the actual situation. In this case, I think a better (st

The problem with using an analogy to prove a point is that the analogy is nearly always a poor fit for the actual situation. In this case, I think a better (still flawed) analogy would be where "TeacherSoft" records only everything the students say - so if they're having a lesson about "Joe the Novelist", TeacherSoft sees some words and snippets of information from Joe's work, including when the students quote back a sentence of two, but not all of Joe's work. This is closer, IMHO, to Bing seeing the URLs of Google's search pages when a user visits them, and which links the user chooses to click, but not the search pages themselves.[1] But it's still a poor analogy, IMHO. [1] If you don't know what precisely Bing gets sent, it appears to be this: http://projectgus.com/2011/02/bing-google-finding-some-facts/ http://projectgus.com/2011/02/bing-google-finding-some-facts...