Thu, 11 Nov 2004

Is Microsoft Crawling Google?

Illegal or just unethical? Or neither? You decide ...

Jason Dowell over at WebProNews has written a piece questioning a tactic Microsoft might be using to beef up it's new search engine. He thinks they might be dipping into Google's results to supplement its own. Dowell likens it to leaving your garbage on the curb--anyone could conceivably go through it and take whatever is there for their own.

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