Microsoft claims Google used 'click fraud' to fool Bing
MAINTAINER OF THE COPYCAT SEARCH ENGINE Bing, Microsoft has been forced to defend itself against the accusation that it copied search results from Google and bunged them into Bing.
Yesterday Google accused Microsoft of tracking users' search patterns on Google's search engine and transferring the results onto Bing. Google claimed that in experiments consisting of synthetic queries that spewed out artificial and irrelevant search results, the very same results were returned by Bing weeks later.
Microsoft's plan to address Google's damning evidence was not only to admit to the fact that it tracks users' clicks, but to go on the offensive. Tracking Internet Explorer users is "one of more than a thousand inputs into our [Bing] ranking algorithm", said Yusuf Mehdi, SVP of Microsoft's Online Services Division. Mehdi then claimed that Google's experiments were deliberately set up to fool Bing, labelling them a "honeypot attack".
