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joelhaus on Feb 1, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft: 'We do not copy Google's results'

Exposing this practice has also introduced another potential problem for Bing. Gaming of their search results.

I would expect to see spammers sending many thousands/millions of clicks on specific Google search results through Bing's Toolbar for long-tail queries.

ars on Feb 1, 2011 [–]

You'd first have to get the result to come up as a result of your search.

(Although I suppose you could hack the toolbar and send the data manually.)

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