Thursday, February 3, 2011

Search Engine Slap Fight: Microsoft Denies Cheating, Blames Google

Is Microsoft cheating? Did Google use "click fraud?" And what's Yahoo up to, anyway?

Following a months-long sting operation, Google took a swing at Microsoft on Tuesday, claiming the company was copying results from Google for its Bing search engine. The search giant said Microsoft was sucking data from Google's search results and using them to -- put nicely -- inform its own search engine. 

Microsoft just slapped back. 

In a blog posting titled "Setting the record straight," Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi, senior veep in the Online Services Division, said it was by no means cheating -- and Google was the one playing fast and loose with the rules.

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