Does Microsoft's Bing have Google running scared?(news.cnet.com)
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Does Microsoft's Bing have Google running scared?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10264417-75.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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A CNet article quoting the New York Post quoting an anonymous source who says "Bing seems to be of particular interest to Sergey" (emphasis mine). Quite a dubious chain of trust to back up such a mundane point. On the other hand, I don't think the headline "Does Microsoft's Bing have Google running scared? We have no idea" would not have worked very well.
Bing spikes a single day's numbers above 10% and Google is running scared? I don't think so. Competition is good for all consumers. An astro-turfing article by the Microsoft PR machine is the more likely cause of this article.
I bet Cnet and the like just have MadLibs-like templates for "journalism" like this. "Does ___ have ___ running scared"?