Microsoft cheat at search engine ranking.

[Chippiewill]

Bloody cheaters..

You could say Bing is taking a cue from its competition, but it seems to be more literally taking search results as well. Google Fellow Amit Singhal is claiming so much and has provided some amusing (if not totally clever) results from its "Bing Sting." Here's how it works: find a search term that returns no matches for either site, make a "honeypot" page manually appear for the term, then have about 20 Google employees make the search (and click the top link) using Internet Explorer with both Suggested Sites and the Bing Toolbar on. Within two weeks, Singhal claims, a handful (about 7 to 9) of the 100 or so "honeypot" results were popping up in Bing. Bizarre choices, too, like mbrzxpgjys, hiybbprqag, and indoswiftjobinproduction.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/01/g...-its-search-r/

Microsoft doesn't innovate anything these days.

[matt$]

m$ failed.

[xxMATTGxx]

Might want to read: http://www.neowin.net/news/bing-sett...ecord-straight

[Casio]

Erm, Google and Bing are owned by the same people.

[Recursion]

Good tactics IMO

Erm, Google and Bing are owned by the same people.

Troll?

[xxMATTGxx]

Erm, Google and Bing are owned by the same people.

Excuse me?

[GommeInc]

One of my friends in journalism wrote an article about this. Google are being hypocrites and this story of Microsoft "cheating" when it comes to search engine ranking is nothing compared to what Google do.

Click the News tab on Google, and you'd get what I am talking about - Google piggy back news articles from the BBC and other websites all the time, they're no different. Both are obviously doing a "good" as they are providing views to each individual website, but Google gets the credit as they're the first place you go for when it you want news, rather than go immediately to the source. So they're both as bad as each other :/

[HotelUser]

I saw this on Engadget.

I don't think they're copying anyone - obviously it means Bing has a very resourceful indexing algorithm though!

[Ajthedragon]

I don't care what they're doing, as long as I can carry on searching. :rolleyes:

[Casio]

Excuse me?

Bill gates owns Google, He also owns Microsoft so therefore they are owned by the same person(s) excuse me if i am wrong though