First article I've read in a while that's taking Microsoft's side in the whole situation. Every paragraph of this screams publicity. I am just wondering here if this is a PR tactic. Here I would be happy to see a balanced review of both companies behavior but this is just one sided bashing.

<quote>Shame on your pretentious, obnoxious, indefensibly egregious double standard in the field of using public information to turn a profit.</quote> <<-- Ironically, Bing is doing the same and unlike content creators who can opt out by putting a robots.txt file Google cannot opt out of this because like it or not toolbar is always sending back information.

Google indexes public content but how it aggregates it and displays it is their deed. The ordering, etc is Google's work not content creators.Copying it is just like copying an IP. I would love to see this go to court and be fought.