Is Microsoft Really Stealing Google's Search Results?

Interesting story in the news this week that computer giant Microsoft is stealing internet search results from Google. People are finding that they are using the same search terms in either Bing or Google and coming up with exactly the same results.

Google decided to make the announcement about Microsoft "Piggy-backing" it's technology at at Microsoft sponsored event in San Francisco. Google have caught Microsoft in the act on this one, the clever guys and girls over at Google made themselves a list of very obscure search terms and linked them to un-related websites (as Hubpages users we all know how useless this would be).

The Google engineers decided to take home laptops with them and searched the random terms they had placed into the search engine to discover the results of the websites they linked them to. Google say that not long after these search terms had been placed into their search engine the same results where appearing in Microsoft's Bing. Google have given their test the "Bing sting" as a nickname.

Microsoft are now facing allegations from Google in relation to the matter an allegation they vermintly deny. Microsoft have said that they are like anyone else and use data shared back to them from customers and said it is not like they are stealing anything, using the explanation of collective intelligence.

This is no new row and it is well known that the two company's are not each others biggest fans. Microsoft are attempting to break into the search engine world which is currently led by Google. Google on the other hand are starting to give Microsoft a run for their money developing their own software applications.

I read about a guy the other day who allows his computer to install the automatic updates, patch's and security from Microsoft automatically. This guy has always used Internet Explorer (Microsoft) to log onto the Internet, his computer one day switched to the Bing search engine in Internet Explorer and he was not able to change it back to Google even via his Control Panel. Giving up eventually he now uses Google Chrome.

This is a problem I have not had, to be honest I do not really do that much searching on the Internet. I have never tried Bing so could not give it my verdict. I sure know for now though I will be sticking with Google.