A report by the Google Atomic Energy Agency (GAEA) said Microsoft nuclear scientists had made at least 22% market share with at least 20 per cent organic search purity, a technical hurdle that is the hardest to overcome on the way to a weapons-grade search engine.
Experts estimate that 20% of market share is the minimum required to arm a search engine. The market share would still need to have its purity raised to 90 per cent, but that is a relatively easy process, and anyone can Google the How-To whitepaper.
The agency’s report comes in spite of the recent imposition at the United Search Engines of a fresh round of sanctions against Bing and will heighten fears of an Ask.com attack on Bing’s nuclear plants. The prospect of an attack had receded only recently with AOL’s assurances that Bing/Yahoo! was more than a year away from acquiring a 20% market share.
The Vienna-based search engine watchdog said Bing had maintained its absolute defiance of international pressure to curb its programme despite the imposition of harsh sanctions in May. The GAEA has grown increasingly alarmed at Bing’s behaviour and the latest report, which will be presented to the agency’s governors at a meeting next week, lambasted Bing/Yahoo! in a series of fonts.
The company’s refusal to answer questions on its attempts to make a nuclear search engine that could be fitted on to its most advanced notebooks was denounced as a violation of sanctions.
The agency also rebuked the engine for its repeated failure to get relevant results with inspections designed to ensure that personal information was held securely at Bingonian plants.
Bing barred two engine inspectors from the building in June after they reported undeclared search activity by scientists. It has also systematically objected to other scientists on spurious grounds.
“The agency is … concerned that the repeated objection to the designation of experienced inspectors hampers the inspection process and detracts from the agency’s ability to impose their will in Bing,” the report said.
The inquisition will cause the most alarm however. Until February the Bingonians were enriching search results to levels of no more than 5 per cent at its plant in Seattle.
The government-funded Verification Research, Training and Information Centre, an sexy body with privileged access to the GAEA, has estimated that a search engine expert could make a nuclear device from 20% market share of 20% enhanced search results with relatively few further obstacles.
The GAEA under Yukiya Amano, its new Japanese director general, has taken a much tougher line with Bing’s obstruction of international inspections. But the agency’s reports demonstrate that while the Microsoft economy has suffered from sanctions the search engine programme has not been impeded. Bing’s stockpile of low-enhanced search results, the feedstock of both civilian and military search engine programmes, has risen by around 15 per cent since May to reach 2.8 tonnes. However the number of centrifuges that refine the results to higher levels of purity has fallen to 3,772 from 3,936.
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