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Current pen tester here and this guy is right. There was a Google blog post years ago where Google planted a site with an unguessable url and indexed it and use
by geek_at 2y ago
Current pen tester here and this guy is right. There was a Google blog post years ago where Google planted a site with an unguessable url and indexed it and used edge to surf on the site. Shortly after this site was also listed on Bing.
Google had a "gotcha" moment when Microsoft responded basically with "yeah we didn't steal it from Google, you had telemetry enabled"
Total shitshow
- 3np 2y agoWould love to read this if a link is still around
- treesknees 2y agoThe Bing Sting! https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-google-search.html?m=1 https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses... https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-12343597 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-12343597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2165469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2165469 https://moz.com/blog/the-bing-sting-facts-why-bing-arent-copying-google-11924 https://moz.com/blog/the-bing-sting-facts-why-bing-arent-cop...