How Google Ambushed Microsoft and Changed the Subject

&#62;<i>"I can’t condone any kind of plagiarism or cheating—and that is what Microsoft’s usage of Google data seems to amount to."</i><p>By academic standards, Google plagiarizes many times a day.<p>In Google's "sting" operation the description Google provides for www.cfacu.org is copied directly from DMOZ. Academic standards don't cut any slack for the ODP license and similar terms.<p>See:<p><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-google-search.html" rel="nofollow">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-...</a><p>and<p><a href="http://www.dmoz.org/search?q=clyde+findley+area+credit+union" rel="nofollow">http://www.dmoz.org/search?q=clyde+findley+area+credit+union</a>

Most of Wadhwa's essays just get a "meh" from me. Nothing particularly original, not always pointed, and they usually don't leave me fulfilled. Perhaps this one may have been useful if the reader had been living under a rock for the last week, but those people don't frequent tech blogs.

If Blekko sticks to their word, I'd be inclined to give them a real chance. Sick of my search results being padded with spammy results.<p>EDIT: Having looked at them, I'm a little unclear about what they're trying to do. Are they actually letting end-users tag the web? I.e., Google not allowing users to block certain sources.

&#62;"We need a standard measure of web quality. "<p>To think that you can come up for an objective standard of quality for any search term is ridiculous. Why not just have a search engine return whatever your objective standard demands everytime and have a perfect score, if it's so easy?

Many articles on TechCrunch seem to be the gossipy type and are not much better than articles in a content farm that the author is railing on.