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:Bing is not Google, but it is a spin engine.
Bing is not Google, but it is a spin engine.
Jun 3, 2009, 12 :31 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (6247 reads)

(Other stories by Christian Einfeldt)

"The important thing here is not whether Bill Gates does, in fact, steal, and I am not here to make ad hominem attacks on the world's richest man. The point is how Microsoft deals with criticism. With spin. As opposed to Google, which just repeats much of the criticism of it.

"For example, the first phrase, Linux, when typed into Bing, yielded phrase-completion suggestions linked to comparisons of Linux and Microsoft products. By contrast, the same phrase when typed into google leads to information that a GNU-Linux user would actually want, such as information on different Linux distros."

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Wow!  I wonder why it took them so long. ...   microsoft making decissions for me   
Fred Williams
Jun 3, 2009, 14:55:10
 
I wonder if Microsoft gets (many/some) r ...   Is Google their friend?   
Jose_X
Jun 3, 2009, 17:08:03
 
MS is such a commie company.  Bing.com a ...   Wow   
Jimmy the Geek
Jun 3, 2009, 18:27:31
 
So in essence Bing is a censored corpora ...   Nice one.   
J. Kloosterman
Jun 4, 2009, 05:48:43
 
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