When multibillion dollar tech companies start throwing punches back and forth, where do you turn? The Colbert Report, obviously. Here’s Colbert’s funnier take on the already pretty ridiculous Google-Bing battle.
Remember how Google caught Bing copying its search results in an elaborate honey-trap where the former made up some bizarro search-terms and and waited for Bing to replicate them? One of those made-up, unpronounceable words, hiybbprqag, has hit the big-time.
The catty slapping between Google and Microsoft has reached a crescendo today, with Google’s Amit Singhal taking to the official Google blog to expand more on yesterday’s shocking revelation that Bing is stealing their search results.
As a boatload more people use Google to search for results than Bing could ever possibly dream of, it’s not surprising the Bing team has been caught copying and correcting misspelled search terms, with data mined from Google search results.
If you’ve never been able to put your finger on why Google Maps seems so much easier to read than other mapping services, here’s why.
