http://www.businessinsider.com/bing-copies-google-fight-2011-2

The event and the panel were about the future of search and it was sponsored by Bing.  What Matt Cutts and Google did was 1.) ignore the topic that everybody came there to hear about and co-opt the conversation for their own selfish agenda.  Moreover they basically froze out the other panel member, Blekko, by dropping their little bomb.  2. It seemed to me, bad behavior for an invited guest to do at somebody else's party.


IMO, not cool and no class.  Not that anybody asked but there it is.  If they had a bone to pick with Bing they ought to have just refused to attend.

Makes you wonder what Google wanted to distract us from?

I have read so much about this over the last few days, but it was good to see the vid.

I'm sure we all have our own thoughts on the way these guys do things, so I won't get into that.  One thing I do hope to see is more pannel dicussions between these two.  The Cutts & Shum show could become a great regular feature.

This bing vs Google is entertaining.

Was hoping some of the more mainstream news sites and respected search journalists would have dug a little deeper before simply saying bing was copying Google.

Seems very few have pointed out that Google has just let the cat out of bag about them being able to hand craft search results - Publicly they've always denied this, and am sure they've even been to court about it and always claimed 'its the algos'

Plus what bing is doing is simply looking at user data, google do this with loads of products.
Guess "bing uses toolbar and browser data to fill in gaps" is not as sexy as "Bing copies google"

I just found this thread.  I have to agree:  no class. 

Why not do a press release on this?  Why be an asshole at a discussion?  Bad bad...

Or, to misquote Monty Python, "Ah, I see you have the Search Engine that goes Bing. This is my favorite. You see, we copy content from other website and repackage it as snippets and that way it comes under Fair Use and not Plagiarism, but we don't like other Search Engines copying us."