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> Bing was created by scraping Google results. Do you have a source? Just curious about the back story.

• asdfaoeu 6y ago
  Not GP but from memory this was the same incident: https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google/ https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google/
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• mcny 6y ago
  2011 https://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-our-search-results-62914/ https://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying... https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google
  • mthoms 6y ago
    Apparently, the copying allegation is false. There's more to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24112418 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24112418 Not excusing MS, but it seems they were not wholesale copying Google results.
• 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y ago
  "Scraping" was the wrong word. I was remembering incorrectly. Microsoft did not have to scrape. They were apparently using search data captured through Internet Explorer. There was a time before Google had control of the browser. This illustrates how companies with browsers can gather data about users' web activity and how far they can go. Today, even Firefox is gathering data about users' activity with "telemetry", and users typing things into the browser's search box are by default sending this data to Google.
  • quickthrower2 6y ago
    Aha. Malware scraping!
  • Liquid_Fire 6y ago
    > users typing things into the browser's search box are by default sending this data to Google. This is incorrect. Firefox will prompt you whether to enable search suggestions on first use, and will not fetch suggestions until you say yes.
    • 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y ago
      Interesting that you said "until" instead of "unless".