[thomasahle]

Maybe Bing is still doing this: http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-... In that case, the hacker news interest would probably get the page included in Bing, but it would take some time before everyone would start seeing it.

[throwawaykf09]

Did you try the search on both Bing and Google? Looked very different for Bing and Google.

Also, that accusation was purely a PR play by Google that IMO Bing refuted convincingly: http://searchengineland.com/bing-why-googles-wrong-in-its-ac...

[bduerst]

> was purely a PR play

Bing said they were using internet explorer to monitor users's activity and copy search results. They're still copying Google search results, just doing it through IE.

[kappel]

When did tracking users become equivalent to copying Google search results?

[wdr1]

Watching what a user types into Google & using the Google result is pretty much textbook copying.