“For the first time ever, someone’s search history has been busted for something other than porn.” – Stephen Colbert
Earlier this week, Danny Sullivan from Search Engine Land, reported that Google has proof of Bing copying their search results. Bing fervently denied this accusation and instead accused Google of click fraud involving “honeypot” search results.
Well apparently, the SEO community were not the only folks who had an opinion on the matter. Comedian Stephen Colbert, despite being sponsored by Bing, poked fun at the search giant.
He briefly described Google’s sting operation and how they made nonexistent words like “hiybbprqag” to turn up in search results, only for the same results to show up on Bing a month later.
Colbert goes on to say, “Evidently, ‘hiybbprqag’ is a word meaning, you got served.”
The video is pretty hilarious, so be sure to check it out.
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Also, what do you think about Google calling out Bing? Or Bing’s defense regarding Google’s accusation of copying their search results? Let us know in the comments.
Seems like the real story here is how a large percentage of Internet users unknowingly are having everything they do watched. It probably does contribute to better results on the search engines, but do you really want the search engines basically looking over your shoulder at virtually everything you do while online?
I think they both provide different search results (or actually have different concepts in gathering data), and personally, I think Bing is much better in retrieving data to be used for their results. A few weeks back, I crashed my personal blog's database and I wasn't able to recover my older posts, and that made me resort to retrieving my older posts through search engines' cached version. And honestly, I've found Bing's page indexation much useful than Google's, seeing as the results given by Bing was in proper order and they have kept my older posts that wasn't already on Google's index.