The search engine giants are in the news.

Google is alleging that Microsoft’s Bing is copying its results. How do they know? And how does a search engine work anyway?

Linguist Daniel Midgley makes sense of the technology on this week’s Talk the Talk.


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10: Google and Bing

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Original article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704124504576118510340787364.html

But here’s a good explanation of why Google might be wrong:
http://searchengineland.com/bing-why-googles-wrong-in-its-accusations-63279