Microsoft has a habit of using a variety of tricks to convince people to keep using the defaults of Bing and Microsoft Edge in Windows, including modifying Chrome download sites and using malware-like ...

Microsoft removed its Google-like search box on Bing after being called out by the web and Google's Chrome VP. Bing now displays a Google Search link as the first search result, eliminating ...

If you want to search Google, typing "Google" in the address bar will search for the term using the default search engine: Bing. This is all well and good—after all, Bing is still a good search ...

When users look up Google using Bing, the Microsoft-owned search engine displays a Google Doodle lookalike. The deceptive webpage could trick unsuspecting users into staying on Bing, as its layout ...

How novel. When news broke of Microsoft's mimicry, Vice President and General Manager of Google Chrome, Parisa Tabriz, let loose a tweet on X calling out Bing's flagrant tactic to keep its users ...

Google was at 95.8% a year ago and is now at 93.88%; Bing ended with only 0.84%. Then if you look at USA data, Google hit 90.37% for the first time in November 2024, it never had over 90% share ...

A few days ago, the search engine Bing was caught trying to look like Google Search. Now, Microsoft has quietly stopped its attempts to make people think they are using Google Search instead of Bing.

Now, the same thing is happening with Bing—Microsoft's search ... Parisa Tabriz, the vice president of Google Chrome, expressed her displeasure at the move on X (formerly Twitter).

Billed as a new paradigm in searching the web, the new-and-improved Bing promised to help users answer more complex, specific questions than legacy search engines like Google could provide.

Microsoft has been accused of using an underhand trick to drive Bing traffic In certain situations, searching for ‘Google’ in Bing will produce a results page that looks a lot like Google's ...

Is imitation really the best form of flattery? In an effort to get more people to use Bing, Microsoft appears to be disguising its Bing searches as Google ones for any users seeking to ditch Microsoft ...