How did bing manage to get a PR of 9 in one google PR update?

When the news about bing first hit the streets, the page was blank and i believe it had a page rank of 2. that was a few months ago. next thing i know, when it was launched it allready had a pr of 9. how did microsoft pull that off? Do they know a secret link building stradegy that we dont or did google did them a favor or did they pay google?

Anyone have any ideas? Maybe i dont know pr that good, but to get a pr of 9 in a few months is crazy, even if they built millions of backlinks, it takes google time to index all of them...

 

live.com use to be a 9 and redirects to bing.com now.

 

Yeah, He's right.
Live.com which used to be MS's search engine is now redirecting to bing.

 

so your saying that live.com transfered the pr to bing? how does that work?

 

because 301 redirect means so.. read the google clearances on this matter by googling it.

 

Which means that we can transfer pr from one site to another.. with 301 redirect?

 

Thanks for sharing that. I too never know that.

 

Plus there are probably quite a few other sites linking to it

 

Yes a 301 redirect is the code that tells machines that this site has "permanently moved" to the stated location (url).

Each page on the old site also needs to redirect.

The old site is then no longer crawled and ultimately the PR gets transferred too.

/*tom*/

 

If you use 301 redirect, the PR gets transferred.

 

ye live redirects and there are many other things...

Bing comes at front page of CNN, BBC, Digg etc And I guess Almost all news sites of America..

So they are linking bing with them..
Just see here at digital point..Every day we have topic related to bing etc..