Opvallend bericht: zoekmachine Bing zou een deel van zijn resultaten kopiëren van die andere zoekmachine, Google.De manier waarop Google, die dit al een tijdje vermoedde, dit bewijst is ingenieus:

“Google engineers created around 100 bizarre search terms that it reasoned would never be used in an actual search – things like “hiybbprqag” and “mbzrxpgjys” – and wrote some sneaky manual code that pointed these search terms at particular pages.

The search terms didn’t appear anywhere on the results pages, so there was nothing but Google’s own search results to link these terms with the pages they brought up. So if these results started showing up on Bing, Microsoft would be caught red-handed stealing search results.

The Google engineers then went home, and booted up Internet Explorer with the Bing toolbar installed. They went to Google.com and started searching for the list of false search terms, and clicking on the results they’d planted.

Sure enough, within two weeks, you could search Bing for “hjybbprqaq” and get Google’s planted search result. This didn’t work for all the new search terms, but for 7 or 8 of them; enough to prove a point.” (bron Gizmag)

Je zou natuurlijk ook kunnen zeggen dat je bij Bing bijna alles van Google krijgt en meer?