> On Jan 9, 2016, at 4:07 AM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > In this case, though, Microsoft was actually directly copying Google's search > results, and directly admitted to it. > http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-our-search-results-62914 > > That situation is actually closer to being analogous to taking a copy of > Walden and crossing out Henry David Thoreau's name and writing in your own.
Microsoft wasn't copying the search results per se, it was recording the link clicked in response to a search. The Google ranking wasn't the interesting information for Bing, it was the user action, and recording that would record Google's unusual honeypot result links as a byproduct. (The press did a poor job explaining this.)
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