user24, I didn't make the connection that you did those "What on earth are Google thinking" posts--just wanted to say thanks for your tweet earlier. It made me feel like doing the post wasn't such a bad idea.
I just wish you'd found that research right in the beginning! It's still not 100% conclusive, but it adds a lot more weight to your claims.
But still, I don't understand why Bing felt it necessary to specifically target you! The generic approach of mining all URLs indiscriminately, which I advocated, would have had largely the same impact and would be defensible against claims of cheating. It's crazy. There was no need to copy directly from Google and yet it looks very much like they still did.
