Google: Sting proves Bing copied search results

Wow, that's a biggy:

Suspicious of their new rival, Google engineers set up random results on their site for a series of unlikely search terms, such as "hiybbprqag." (Google arranged for the nonsense word to point to a Los Angeles theater seating plan on its search engine.)
"Within a couple weeks of starting this experiment, our inserted results started appearing in Bing," Google said in a statement on its official blog Tuesday.
Google said it welcomed honest competition, but sneered at Bing's "recycled search results from a competitor."

This tendency of Microsoft to "adopt" things was quite clearly shown in relatively new response to erasing the spam e-mails (they call it "junk") from the Hotmail Junk folder:

Compare with Gmail old and familiar:

Of course, there is no copyright on the words "Hooray" so far. Still, pathetic...