Bunuel wrote:
Google Inc. accused rival Microsoft Corp.’s Bing Search of copying its internet search results. To prove its claim, Google did a series of tests. As an example, in one of the tests, it changed its algorithm to show a link to the website for Blackberry maker Research In Motion Ltd if users searched for "mbzrxpgjys", a result that was essentially irrelevant. When this test was executed, the same result showed up on Bing. In fact, Google found such copying in nine out of 100 different search queries it tested.
If Google’s claim that Microsoft is copying it’s search results is true, what else must be true?
A. Users who typed "mbzrxpgjys" found the link to the website of Research In Motion Ltd. useful.
B. If two search engines return the same search results for 9 or more out of 100 search terms, then one search engine must be copying the other.
C. It is highly unlikely that the irrelevant results from two different search engines would match unless one copied the other.
D. The number of search queries for “mbzrxpgjys” did not increase tremendously in the time period when Google carried this test out.
E. Copying irrelevant results is as severe a crime as copying relevant search results.
Okay, so Google thinks that Bing is copying their search results, and they did some tests to prove it. In one test, they made a search query for a weird string of letters that had nothing to do with anything, and then they changed their algorithm to show a link to the Blackberry website. When they ran the same search on Bing, the Blackberry link showed up too. Google found this kind of copying in nine out of 100 tests they did. So, if Google's claim is true, what else has to be true?
A. Do we really care if users found the Blackberry link useful? Nah, that's not the point.
B. This one seems like it might be true, but it's a bit too strong. We can't say for sure that two search engines are copying each other just because they have some similar results.
C. This one seems like a winner. It makes sense that two search engines wouldn't come up with the exact same irrelevant result by coincidence, right?
D. This one doesn't really matter. Whether or not the number of searches for "mbzrxpgjys" increased isn't relevant to the question at hand.
E. This one might be true, but it's not really relevant to the question either. We're not talking about the severity of the crime, we're just trying to figure out if Bing is copying Google's search results.