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Ironically, you are refuting as a straw man a proposition I never made. I have never claimed Bing did that. I just highlight the fact the way they get data from google is technically a copy, since it has the capacity to duplicate the entire google database (which again is not what they are doing).

Imagine I launch a search engine with no data. Then I feed it with urls IE users click on after their google search. I will eventually end up with an exact copy of google database. So I think that this technique can be called "copying". Now if Bing uses this technique for 0.1% of their data, then it can be said that 0.1% of their data are copied from Google database.