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Could Bing Improve Its Search Results With Google +1?

Here’s a big dose of irony. Could Google +1 buttons or +1 data — which Google uses to improve its search results — come to...

Danny Sullivan | Apr 15, 2011 at 9:00 am ET

Yes, Google uses data from its Google Toolbar to improve its search results. But no, Google reasserts, it doesn’t use its toolbar to mine...

Danny Sullivan | Feb 16, 2011 at 1:17 pm ET

Stephen Colbert & Jimmy Fallon weren’t the only ones having fun with Google’s accusations that Bing was copying Google’s...

Danny Sullivan | Feb 12, 2011 at 12:05 pm ET

Part of this week’s debate over whether Microsoft’s Bing search engine is learning from Google involves data that Bing gathers...

Danny Sullivan | Feb 5, 2011 at 3:58 pm ET

Along with everything else going on for Bing’s Harry Shum on Tuesday — a panel about search spam, dealing with Google’s...

Danny Sullivan | Feb 4, 2011 at 1:39 pm ET

Enter a new referee in the Copygate dispute between Google and Bing: comedian Stephen Colbert. Despite being sponsored by Bing, Colbert came...

Danny Sullivan | Feb 3, 2011 at 4:06 am ET

The war of words between Google and Bing has escalated today with a strong denial about copied search results from Bing’s Yusuf Mehdi, who...

Matt McGee | Feb 2, 2011 at 4:10 pm ET

Bing has formally responded to Google’s charges that Bing is copying search results, accusing Google of trying a “spy-novelesque...

Matt McGee | Feb 1, 2011 at 1:56 pm ET

Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from...

Danny Sullivan | Feb 1, 2011 at 8:45 am ET