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Bing Faces Off Against Google Over Search Results

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Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer at Google, accuses Bing of using Google data to improve its search results. Dr. Harry Shum, Corporate VP of Core Search Development at Microsoft, claims Bing is simply using available online data.

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