Microsoft Crawling Google Results?

[fitz]

Is the new MSN Search beta nothing more than Google redressed?

http://www.webpronews.com/insiderre...tCrawlingGoogleResultsForNewSearchEngine.html

 

[SPeedY_B]

Quite probably, one of Microsoft's favourite quotes: "Good artists copy. Great artists steal." 😉

 

[NetRyder]

Some interesting perspectives on the article here that debunk the theory. After all, it's just speculation:
http://webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=31604

Something else - a thread was started by one of the people on the MSN Search team. A quote from the post:

Also regarding relevance, there has been some speculation on some online forums about MSNBot using Google search result pages to build our index. Let us set the record straight – that is simply not true. We respect robots.txt and as a result we will not crawl Google’s search result pages.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum97/229.htm

Take it for what it's worth.