Why is Google so hysterically hypocritical about Bing using its public data?
I read half of this. Its late, and I don't have the time or energy to refute point by point every single wrong thing that is written in that half.<p>Its easy to sum up. Yes, Google indexes hundreds of millions of sites. It does so in order for other people to be able to search and find those sites, which is important to their owners. Its a symbiotic relationship, not theft of intellectual property.<p>Google has spent billions of dollars in manpower and physical capacity in order to be able to do that. Also, each and every one of those sites can <i>very</i> easily say "don't index me" with a simple robot.txt file on their site. Some do, most don't, because most sites find it valuable for Google to index them.<p>Meanwhile, Microsoft is trying to compete in the same space as Google. They are also spending lots of money and manpower to build their search engine. But, by using Google's search results to improve their own product, they are acting as a parasite. Google gets no benefit from Microsoft using their data.<p>So to sum up my own summary: Google is a mass symbiote, Microsoft is a parasite.