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.)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:
"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."
Compare with Gmail old and familiar:
Of course, there is no copyright on the words "Hooray" so far. Still, pathetic...
