Bing shows results that MS asked Google to take down
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Re: Bing shows results that MS asked Google to take down
#2You know this is one of those things that sounds terribly hypocritical but in a massive company can easily be just the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. Its hard for me to see this as anything more then typical large co bureaucracy.
Re: Bing shows results that MS asked Google to take down
#3I don't even think it was Bing who asked for those links to be removed, it was actually the X-Box division trying to prevent piracy of games on their platform. If anything, Bing probably is much slower and less adept at being able to block these results when compared to Google hence the discrepancy.
Re: Bing shows results that MS asked Google to take down
#4Anyone else surprised that the use of "bitch" as a verb is suddenly acceptable journalism?
Re: Bing shows results that MS asked Google to take down
#5You know this is one of those things that sounds terribly hypocritical but in a massive company can easily be just the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. Its hard for me to see this as anything more then typical large co bureaucracy.
My intuition agrees too, this is just a goof. But it's important to note that this isn't merely hypocrisy. By offering useful search results that Google doesn't, Microsoft makes Bing a more attractive search engine. This process certainly could be abused if MS wanted -- XBox and Windows cracks are clearly desired content.
Re: Bing shows results that MS asked Google to take down
#6Anyone else surprised that the use of "bitch" as a verb is suddenly acceptable journalism?
Premature optimization.
First there's the matter of whether or not TechDirt is "journalism." I'm not saying that to be snarky, just pointing out there's still a lot of debate surrounding this issue.
Re: Bing shows results that MS asked Google to take down
#7You know this is one of those things that sounds terribly hypocritical but in a massive company can easily be just the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. Its hard for me to see this as anything more then typical large co bureaucracy.
I'm not following...there aren't 2 parties. There's 1 party, the people sending a take down notice. The question is why aren't they sending the same take down notices to all search engines which have the material in question?
Re: Bing shows results that MS asked Google to take down
#8Anyone else surprised that the use of "bitch" as a verb is suddenly acceptable journalism?
I don't think TechDirt aims to be "on par" with the traditional newspapers when it comes to "controversial" language ;)
Re: Bing shows results that MS asked Google to take down
#9I've gotten several of these types of notices before. Usually, it isn't Microsoft that does them directly ("Internet1@microsoft-antipiracy.com"). For instance, the ones I've received as usually signed as "on behalf of Microsoft Corporation" with some third-party legal firm blindly handing these out.
So the fact that one hand doesn't know what the other is doing is probably quite accurate in this case.
Re: Bing shows results that MS asked Google to take down
#10wow that is some interesting corporate issues... Look our search engine is better it has so many more results... Which we believe to be illegal links and won't let any other search engines help you find... Bing, the best for your warez needs.