In February, Google has not saved harsh words to denounce that Bing was copying their search results for words that did not exist in the search index of the research service from Microsoft. Now it's time for Microsoft to make similar accusations.
According to The Next Web, Google is indexing the images that systematically Bing uses its cache of search results for images. That is, robots crawl the Bing network for photos, which are copied to their server and are displayed when the user does a search. Already Google is indexing these images (already copied) and displaying the search results themselves through images.
A simple search command on Google Images reveals nearly 8 million images hosted on mm.bing.net, the address of Microsoft's search engine to keep the thumbnails. Look:
There are two implications of this situation. The first concerns the Google index results from a direct competitor. Just as they do not want Bing conduct searches within their system, the reverse should apply to Google itself.
The second implication concerns the actual modus operandi of the searchers images. Currently they create their own copies of the photos, which are in the air even when the owner of the photo strip it down. For example, if I publish a photo gallery on TB and then decide to remove it, it is likely that these images remain stored in the cache of search engines. How is my rights to the pictures? Something still unexplained.
Update on 30.05.2011 at 14h44 | A closer examination of the situation, made by René Fraga Google Discovery, shows that the images are being indexed by Google because they were included in the pages from the files stored in the Bing. It is as if the user searches for a picture, and to find it in the Bing, simply copied your address, without bothering to upload the file to your own server.
In the language of the Internet, is what we call a hotlink. Still, I can not understand why Google indexes the cache directory of images of Bing.
