Search Trends - Search Engine Marketing

I have to side with Rusty and Danny on this one. Contrary to a popular rumor going around lately, MSN is not scraping the results pages of Google to seed their search engine. I don't think they're ethically above doing something like that, I just think they're smarter than that and there's not any real reason to do so. They can find plenty of sites the old-fahioned way, following links just like everyone else does. MSN is trying to mimic Google (looked at the UI for the beta search lately), but they're not pulling links off their search results pages, at least not directly. If it has anything to do with Google at all, I think it's more likely to be they're indexing pages that may have pulled google's SERPs like Danny suggests.