Lying liars at M$oft selling out to Chinese govt
What did they get out of it??
Microsoft's Bing search engine is returning suspiciously pro-state results for Chinese-language searches even when those searches come from outside of China, activists claim. The Guardian noted that a number of Chinese-language activist blogs are reporting that the results they have been seeing on Bing searches from within the …
I don't think that's a fair comparison. One is building a house with no supports so it falls down. The other is building a house with no supports on one side so it falls over and crushes your neighbor's house.
Sure either one could be pure stupidity, but one is more suspicious than the other.
It seems to me they're being a little bit quick to jump on Microsoft for this.
I imagine the quantity and nature of material on the Dalia Lama and other issues in both English and Chinese is significantly different. So it seems more likely to me that the search engine is just basing its results on what it finds in each language. Considering that most Chinese content will come from China, and will obviously be heavily censored, a search engine is probably going to give the Dalai Lama less prominence if relying purely on what it finds in Chinese.
Similarly, I would imagine a search for EastEnders is unlikely to produce the same quantity and prominence of results in Chinese as it would produce in English.
Did you not read the article? Google searches don't return such language specific biased results, but Microsoft's Bing does. By identifying myself as a downvoter, I'm probably opening myself up to future retaliatory votes, but hey, have a good day. One downvote for you cap'n.
"Google searches don't return such language specific biased results, but Microsoft's Bing does."
So, you're saying that bing is more advanced than Google? If I search in English, I want English biased results, if I search in French I want French biased results. I would have thought that Google had got that one dealt with and monetised by now.