Bing caught copying Google results!

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disolitude said:

I did some research about this...asked a few people who do search and with this claim Google is the pot calling the kettle black here. I can't believe they would bring this issue to light when they have been doing it since dawn of time.

This happened using the Bing TOOLBAR, not search engine... Bing Toolbar is designed to use user-behaviour patterns to improve results. To a few weeks later it gave the same result.

Considering that when the Google Toolbar is installed and you use Bing, it sends that clickstream data to Google...How can Google believe that type of software behavior is anything other than Bing doing the exact same thing they themselves do? Google toolbar works the SAME!

Is this the new and fast-moving Google that Larry Page had in mind when he took over?  After Facebook takes all the creative engineers away from Google all that will be left is a group of nerds like the ones here crying foul when a formidable competitor uses their own tricks against them.

Thanks for doing the reasearch it seemed it might be something like this as it took a few weeks for the pages to start showing up on bing. Hopefully this compition between bing/ms and google will benifet us consumers