<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Years ago, Google caught Microsoft scraping their search results for spelling corrections. They did a "sting" by inserting a bogus result for a honeypot search term, searching for the honeypot term repeatedly in IE (so the Bing Toolbar could see it), and then demonstrating that Bing picked up their honeypot result.</p><p>They called it the "Bing sting". No one cared.</p><p><a href="https://notebooks.com/2011/02/01/googles-bing-sting-operation-has-microsoft-stung/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">notebooks.com/2011/02/01/googl</span><span class="invisible">es-bing-sting-operation-has-microsoft-stung/</span></a></p><p>Google's crawling the Internet for content and then got mad that Bing scraped some of theirs.</p>
