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You missed part of the argument:

"But it’s very unlikely it figured this out from Google, given that for the misspelling, Google doesn’t auto-correct the word nor provide the same answer."

Bing's nr 1 result is not in Google's results at all.




Google has the spell correction. Microsoft could certainly be harvesting that data directly. (Which appears to be what they are doing on that query.)


Very true...they might be doing this as part of their "cost cutting" exercises.Hasheem had mentioned this and I am not sure what made him to mention "cost cutting" in that panel discussion where Matt and Blekko CEO participated.




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