Microsoft Bing Battles Bot Queries by the Billions http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

In October 2011, Microsoft's Bing search engine handled 2.7 billion search queries, enough to qualify as the number-three search engine in the U.S. But according to new research done by Microsoft and others, that number was dwarfed by the billions of queries that arrived from botnets running on hacked computers across the world.



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