Bing (search engine) the term, Google set up a honeypot, configuring the Google search engine to return specific unrelated results for 100 nonsensical queries such as "hiybbprqag". Over the next couple of weeks, Google engineers entered the search term into Google, while using Microsoft Internet Explorer, with the Bing Toolbar installed and the optional Suggested Sites enabled. In 9 out of the 100 queries, Bing later started returning the same results as Google, despite the only apparent connection between the result and search term being that Google's results connected the two. Microsoft's response to this issue, coming from a company spokesperson, was: "We
Searchers (search engine) Searchers (search engine) Searchers is an internet search engine launched to the public in February 2005. It is a locally hosted web search engine claiming the largest web index in the United Kingdom. Searchers, named Searchers.com until a branding change in 2008, is owned by Reach Global Ltd. Development on the internet search engine began in 2003 at its headquarters in Church, Lancashire. It was incorporated as Searchers UK Ltd in 2004. Searchers launched to the public in 2005 with the aim of developing a British alternative to US internet search engines serving the UK. Searchers focuses on returning results