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		blahedo on Feb 2, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nate Silver: How Much Does Bing Borrow From Google... But think about that claim: a result that shows up in Google's results for a popular query also shows up in Bing's results for a popular query. Maybe because it's a good result? Possibly Bing arrived at it the same way Google did? Or has Google been slipping paper streets into their queries for longer than they're telling us? In short: how did they know that it was "URLs from Google search results" that they were seeing in the Bing results?

burgerbrain on Feb 3, 2011 [–]

"Even search results that we would consider mistakes of our algorithms started showing up on Bing."

If it was a popular query, and both google and bing made the same "mistake", doesn't that seem a tad suspicious to you?

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