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encoderer on Feb 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bing: Why Google’s Wrong In Its Accusations

Don't take it personally that I'm not going to "line by line" your comment the way you did mine -- I'm pretty busy today.

But the issue is, my clickstream is mine. If I chose to share it with somebody -- Bing, Google, My Mom -- it's my choice.

If I, as a user, don't want Bing to have access to my clickstream, I won't install their toolbar.

But if I do, it's not Google's business.

indyank on Feb 5, 2011 [–]

The issue is simple..google uses all its heavy resources to rank that startup as #1. (good or bad).But bing just uses their toolbar to capture that information and rank them. They call this "cost cutting".Doesn't this sound cheap?

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