What is Florian's strategy?

Posted Oct 5, 2010 6:08 UTC (Tue) by SecretEuroPatentAgentMan (guest, #66656)
In reply to: What is Florian's strategy? by Cyberax
Parent article: Microsoft sues Motorola, citing Android patent infringement (ars technica)

>>> Microsoft successfully developed a decent rival product (Bing) without licensing PageRank.

>>Is their algorithm known?

>Of course, no. But it surely adds boost in search result pages based on number of incoming links.

So how do you know?

Since you write "surely" I hope you can also tell me if the Microsoft implementation was based on the disclosure in the Google PageRank patent.