"Facts" I have read, please correct me in what is wrong, incorrect or missing.
#1 Google suspected MS/Bing of straight copying their search results.
#2 Google setup a honeypot like system. Landing pages indexed bogus terms in their system. Essentially noise, that would not exist previously as a search term in either system
#3 Google used a web browser, with the Bing toolbar to navigate bogus search terms
#4 In turn, this user activity was used to cross link a term entered by the user to a web page in MS/Bing's system.
So this opens up the can of worms about user privacy, content ownership (lets drag up the deep linking hysteria of several years ago), morality/legality etc etc etc.
But how exactly did Bing violate Google's terms exactly?
Did Google invalidate their own data by simply using the bing toolbar? Accepting legal terms of the toolbar, device, OS by using it?
Who "owns" the content the user "created" by typing in a search term and clicking a link?