>> "As we have said before and again in this post, we use click stream optionally provided by consumers in an anonymous fashion as one of 1,000 signals to try and determine whether a site might make sense to be in our index."
Erm, the Google test took pretty non-sensical keywords and put at #1 some completely unrelated website.
And then Bing copied this unrelated website result from Google.
The above quote from Bing (especially the bit in italics) is therefore a little confusing. Since, again, the entire point here is that Bing shown completely unrelated websites taking straight from Google. The results weren't relevant. Thus making the quote fairly contradictory in my opinion.
Yet another 'reply' by Bing, and yet again they seem to be trying to insult their way out of it via ad hominem and strawman arguments.
And yet again, Bing still haven't addressed the key point here: why Google results were taken and used by Bing.
Bing sees that I searched for a term, 'iwejhoihfe' on google and ended up clicking a link to foobar.com/page there, this gives foobar.com/page a relevance with the term 'iwejhoihfe'. Since the 'iwejhoihfe' doesn't show up anywhere else on the web, that single relevant site gains a lot of weight for that term.
This is how Bing's algorithm may have worked, and I wouldn't call it intentionally copying, flawed maybe and easily manipulated just like Google Bombing in the old days.
Erm, the Google test took pretty non-sensical keywords and put at #1 some completely unrelated website.
And then Bing copied this unrelated website result from Google.
The above quote from Bing (especially the bit in italics) is therefore a little confusing. Since, again, the entire point here is that Bing shown completely unrelated websites taking straight from Google. The results weren't relevant. Thus making the quote fairly contradictory in my opinion.
Yet another 'reply' by Bing, and yet again they seem to be trying to insult their way out of it via ad hominem and strawman arguments.
And yet again, Bing still haven't addressed the key point here: why Google results were taken and used by Bing.