Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Google accused Microsoft "Bing uses a lot of research"

ROME - It 's enough to quote a typo intentional Bing, the search engine of Microsoft. A word spelled wrong but the correct results returned by Google, in the pages of the engine response to Windows. And the Google engineers were suspicious. "How is it that Bing until a few days ago had no results for this word, written in the wrong way, and after a few days to answer the request with the same results as based on the correct word?".

The answer is that Google is data is clear: Microsoft uses the data of our research and places them in his motor through the Internet Explorer and the "Toolbar Bing, Bing optional bar that can be installed as a browser extension. Imitations. There is slight Amid Singhal, an engineer from Google: "Microsoft is building low-cost imitation of our engine," he says.

In a blog post by Big G, Singhal gets to say: "We invest a lot in the quality of our search technology and we would like to compete with algorithms developed by others that are innovative, and not recycled results from our engine." The controversy also involved Matt Cutts, head of Google's quality, which sets the story "insane." In essence, the Internet Explorer toolbar and Bing, we collect the results returned by Google, and then index them in Bing.

In tests of Google, were included in the search engine key words invented that return results, not the classic "was not found nothing." And in Mountain View have noticed that after a period of a couple of weeks, the flawed also appeared on Bing. Big G defines this type of behavior with the word "copy".

But Microsoft naturally disagrees. The replica of Redmond. "Bing draws from over a thousand sources, and uses the input provided by its users to improve its functionality." So Harry responds Shrum, vice president of Bing. "Using data that users voluntarily choose to share is not copied, but a practice that allows the application to return more precise results." Shrum did not deny that the Explorer toolbar and Bing are able to capture the results of Google and send them to the engine of Microsoft.

But it moves the heart of the matter on shareability of information on the web. "If users want to share data, why should not they?" Is Microsoft's response. A replica that probably will open up many new questions, perhaps even outside the blog and in the courtrooms.

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