Microsoft Responds To "Bing Is Cheating" Allegations

Microsoft's Harry Shum had a few things to say about Google's allegations that they caught Bing "cheating." Hit the comments link below to weigh in on the original discussion.

To be clear, we learn from all of our customers. What we saw in today’s story was a spy-novelesque stunt to generate extreme outliers in tail query ranking. It was a creative tactic by a competitor, and we’ll take it as a back-handed compliment. But it doesn’t accurately portray how we use opt-in customer data as one of many inputs to help improve our user experience.

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