[sajidnizami]

What Bing did is very smart! It actually was, but not crediting Google there just makes it look like a cheap shot.

You won't quote someone without citing their name now would you?

Sadly you are right, they won't be able to push a lawsuit. Not enough grounds for it, however Bing should acknowledge what they did and are doing crediting Google.

If Google hadn't caught them, we would all be thinking Bing did it on its own, which really isn't the case.

[unp3rs0n]

Taking liberty to concoct a scenario. If Walmart asked shoppers to take a photograph of the product layout on display at their favorite shop (which say happens to be Target because its the most popular in town) and used that to make small modifications to its own layout, would you say Walmart needs to credit Target, or that its copying Target? This is an arrangement between Walmart and its shoppers and there is nothing Target can do about it other than making a brouhaha. I don't see why things have to be different in the digital world. We all know how user interfaces historically have been blatantly ripped off.

[jiji]

Actually, Bing should credit the users providing all that clickstream data and all the websites they are using. It just happens that Google is one of many... what's your point?