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Submission + - Bing Is Cheating, Copying Google Search Results (searchengineland.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @12:12PM

An anonymous reader writes: Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then uses that information to improve Bing’s own search listings. Bing doesn’t deny this.

Comment Sharks with lasers (Score 1) 218

by dhyanesh on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @02:30PM (#33737792) Attached to: Las Vegas Hotel Vdara an Accidental Death Ray

Now they just need sharks with lasers in the pool ...

Comment Why China is missing (Score 1) 154

by dhyanesh on Tuesday September 21, 2010 @08:11PM (#33657342) Attached to: Google Publishes Censorship Map

"Chinese officials consider censorship demands to be state secrets, so we cannot disclose that information at this time."

Source: Click on China in the map here.

Comment Site is slashdottted (Score 1) 567

by dhyanesh on Thursday April 29, 2010 @11:00AM (#32030704) Attached to: Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx)

Anyone with a mirror?

Comment Re:They need to do something more radically differ (Score 1) 267

by dhyanesh on Sunday March 28, 2010 @01:39PM (#31648602) Attached to: Microsoft Lost Search War By Ignoring the Long Tail

That's not true in my experience. I have switched from Google to Scroogle (.org) which doesn't track me. I lose the geolocation (hits from my own country first), but everything else is fine.

I think you are sorely missing the point. If Google doesn't track a few users like you that doesn't hurt. If a search engine stopped tracking *everyone* (which is what you are suggesting) then you would get terrible results. Read this blog post if you want to learn more why this data is useful and what you would miss out on.

Comment Re:They need to do something more radically differ (Score 1) 267

by dhyanesh on Sunday March 28, 2010 @11:54AM (#31647750) Attached to: Microsoft Lost Search War By Ignoring the Long Tail

Why not try to make a search engine that doesn't track what you do?

If a search engine doesn't track you it will give so bad results that you would stop using it.

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