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by icedpulleys
5607 days ago
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> there is absolutly NO reason why bing should have linked to those documents There is absolutely a reason. A user queried for a string, then followed a link. Biasing Bing's search results towards the followed links is a signal that improves their search. > When students do this, it is called plagiarizing. The smoke getting thrown by MS is just to distract and divert while they scramble to hide what they did. When I took exams, I wasn't allowed to consult with fellow students, read the internet, or open a textbook. My life as a developer would certainly be a lot different if I wasn't able to do any of those things now because it was "cheating" back when I was in school. It's an awful analogy and, as you've regurgitated it here, seems to be an effective smokescreen on Google's end. |
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Yes, but the actual effect is that they've just copied Google's results, rather than extracted valuable insight from their own users. And I don't see how Bing could have scraped the search terms and results from a Google session unless they are using code specifically tailored for Google's site. Given that, the clickstream excuse rings awfully hollow.
Plagiarism is going to be a judgement call in a developing field like search. Google's judgement is that Bing's scraping of their site, in this case, is fairly underhanded. I would agree.