[ This is great!  After this article first published, we had some very interesting first results back.  Since then the rules have changed, and it appears that the article has been completely down listed.  It is unclear at this point if this was intentional or a random act that we received spill over benefits from.  The reason it is clear that we were down listed is because other similar articles still remain high in the result rankings.  We can literally see the results going away around the net.  Please keep in mind that all of this is for education purposes and fun.  If we were serious, we would approach this in a much different way.  Here is the original editorial edit: [ ed. http://www.bing.com/search?q=google+steals+olivia+wilde+bikini Who stole what? First result.  Funny teaser too. ] ]

They say pictures are worth a thousand words.  Well, I am not a fat boy or a fat burning furnace.  Nor do I look like Olivia Wilde's pictures.  I am also not a Google search or Bing search expert (unless you define ex spert as a has been drip under pressure).  And I also have no idea how the Bing search algorithm got non-sense words into Bing search results via a google engineer.  But I have been doing this a while, and I can see, quite possibly, how it could happen.

I wasn't going to write another article on this, but a rabid reader made a comment on a previous Inoun blog entry and he wanted me to read the original article again.  So I did.  Top to bottom.  Bottom to top so to speak.  Pictures not included.  I also looked at the number of people who were still interested in this topic and decided that it might be helpful to our Inoun rabid readers if we turned this into a learning experience.  How search works.  How to SEO.  Learning SEO, etc.  I don't know that anyone will ever read it, you know the whole lone man / blog in the woods thing, but in the off chance that someone might actually read this blog entry, here goes....

To the only person in the whole wide world reading this.  First of all thanks (I think).  I also think that the fundemental disconnect in all of this Google steals Bing search results (sorry strike that reverse it) is really the problem of click-throughs and toolbars.  I personally think that the whole idea of a toolbar clickthrough tracking is a really bad idea.  For a hole lot of reasons.  In a nut shell, if you allow yourself to be owned, used or abused by a toolbar, google, Adobe, AOL or any of the other toolbar leaches out there, you are just asking for trouble.  And this is the kind of trouble that these toolbars  create.  Always.  And they're always a really bad idea.  Have I made myself clear?  Bid.

So why are they such a bad idea and what does this have to do with Bing stealing google search results?  Well, everything actually.  Most people don't understand this about toolbars, but what they do is simple.  Very simple.  Let me explain it this way.  Have you ever tried to work on your computer when a coworker, family member, friend, foe, fiend or boss was looking over your shoulder?  Well, a Google toolbar is just like that.  Watching your every move.  Taking notes on what you are doing, looking at every skin blemish, picture, photograph, feeling you out, top to bottom.  It's not unlike what occurs about 2 million times a day by the TSA at every airport every day.  And they want you to "feel" good about it to (no pun intended).  The tool bars that is.  Well, I guess the TSA does as well, because they have these new really happy ads helping you feel good about your proctologist.  Kind-a creepy if you ask me.  Toolbars.  We are talking about toolbars here folks!

So anyway, this toolbar watches your every move.  And then somewhere in that great unknown Internets cloud out there, there are a bunch of code bots (think bean counters) that collate, count, integrate, obviscate, bloviate and "feel" you out on every little thing you did.  "I wonder why he did that?  Why did she go to that site?  How many times did they visit that site?  How many other people are there out there that visited that site?  Why is the sky green and Kermit the frog blue?"  Anyway, you get the idea.  And as usual, the bean counters get it wrong.  Just because someone clicked on something doesn't mean that it was what they were really looking for.  And just because a million people click on something about an Olivia Wilde bikini doesn't necessarily mean that a million people are right.  Or left as the case may be.  It doesn't mean a thing.  The only thing that it means is that, well, a million people clicked on it.  That's all.  If all your friends all jumped off of a bridge, as mine often did, does it mean that I am going to?  Well, I didn't, but in the search world, apparently the bean counter bots think that it does mean that you will jump off a bridge.  Just like your friends.   So, if I were dumb enough to write a search engine or blog that watched what everybody searched for and then clicked on, pretty soon I would be out of business.  Because everything would eventually lead back to Britney Spears or Olivia Wilde.  Hm.  Maybe that is why I am righting a blog write now and not out inventing the next cool I Padded you down touch device for the TSA.  BID.

So what happens is that the bean counter bots somewhere in the great unknown cloud decided that tarsorrhaphy, hiybbprqag, delhipublicschool40 chdjob, juegosdeben1ogrande, and a variety of other diputs words might be interesting and related to odd and never searched for before things like Britney Spears Bails on Enrique Iglesias movie tour or wild Olivia Wilde files for divorce pictures on the O.C Alpha Dog Tron cereal movie.  Stuff like that.  Eventually if you get enough people to click on stupid things, like this blog, well, pretty soon the world is a mess.

And also why Google currently thinks that Bing stole their search stupid results as well as Olivia Wilde's bikini pictures.