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So, per your admission, Microsoft's software monitors user behavior on a competitor's site (among others) and sends it back to the mothership, then they use tha
by brandon 15y ago
So, per your admission, Microsoft's software monitors user behavior on a competitor's site (among others) and sends it back to the mothership, then they use that information to tune Bing's algorithm. How many of these data points do you think they get per day from all of their competitors? Millions?
If you seriously don't see the problem with that, then it doesn't brook further discussion. If your competitors got a leg up on your business to any degree because they were able to post-process the results of your work, you'd be furious.
- powertower 15y agoIf Bing (via IE+toolbar) improves its results for me by watching MY behavior (behavior I OWN, not Google), regardless if I'm on HN, on Amazon, on Google, or on some random-website, I'm fine with it. Watching IE (+toolbar) users' behavior is not the same thing as using Google's work. If you can't come to terms with the way click-stream data is gathered and how post processing works, that's your failure, not Bing's. It's like if you don't get spoon fed exactly the flavor you expect (the one that agrees with your preconceived notion), you spit it back in my face. Google came out and blatantly said Microsoft is copying its index. That is nothing more than a simple lie, that's designed to be easier to believe over a more complex truth.