Since Bing launched, there have been huge discrepancies between their results and Google's. However, over the past few weeks I have noticed that many of their results are almost completely identical now. Being that only Google can use the PageRank algorithm (they're leasing the patent from Stanford) I wonder how Microsoft's algorithm can produce such similar results as G?
they may be similar ( and they must be, because the best search results are best afterall ) but not identical.
What if nobody noticed the same thing? Then your statement may be false. In fact, since you are only guessing, I'd bet your statement is false.
Bing does always rely with backlinks and keyword in domain name itself too much. However, Bings result is much better than Yahoo for now.