Microsoft's Bing search engine was accused Tuesday of pilfering its search results from Google. Google said it discovered Bing's tactics through a "sting" operation mounted at the end of last year.

For the purpose of the operation, Google created some esoteric searches which it rigged to display specific pages in the search results in its own search engine. Then it told 20 of its engineers to go home and run the searches on their laptops using Internet Explorer with the "Suggested Sites" and Bing toolbar enabled. After two weeks or so, Google discovered the searches were producing the same results on Bing.

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