Microsoft Bing VP Denies Copying Google Search Results
A vice president for Microsoft's Bing team denied configuring the Bing algorithm to copy Google search results in an effort to boost search market share.
What Bing does use is "clickstream" or customer data from its Bing toolbar to improve its search results, said Harry Shum, corporate vice president of core search development at Microsoft.
Shum defended Bing at a search engine roundtable Feb. 1 and accused Google of cultivating "spy-novelesque" propaganda where none truly exists. The roundtable included Google search quality engineer Matt Cutts, who broached the notion that Bing was copying Google results with Search Engine Land ahead of the "Bing Presents Farsight 2011: Beyond the Search Box" event today.
