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Blocking Bing because Bing may in the future pay some sites to block everyone-other-than-Bing seems premature. Perhaps hypocritical too.

• petervandijck 17y ago
  I don't think it's premature, I think their plans are evil, so I react to that the only way I can. Nothing premature about that. If Google were to think about doing this, I'd do the same, to send a message. And why hypocritical?
  • mooism2 17y ago
    Bing has not yet carried out their plans. Hypocritical because you think it wrong to degrade a search engine's index in return for money... but degrading a search engine's index to send a message is fine.
    • petervandijck 17y ago
      Yes, but they're planning it. There's a big difference between me deciding to block a search engine on my sites, and a search engine paying content providers to block another search engine. I mean, I may still be wrong, but there is a big difference in degree, right?
    • petervandijck 17y ago
      So even without the money, a search engine messing with another search engine's index seems wrong. Me as a content provider, I have all the right in the world to block anyone. But me as a search engine, I shouldn't actively try to mess with the index of another search engine.