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Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by 0xTJ »

cblconfederate wrote: post #34

Dear Microsoft, You fools, you own a gate to the internet. When i search 8*9 in the start menu, show me the result of the multiplication instead of a link to "search web for 8*9". Make the menu auto-complete with the titles of the first 5 web results instead of random ads. Make it work well as an actually useful extension of search. Forget about edge and bing.com, you will care about the brand name later. (You can th…

As far as I can tell, it already does this, and it's my most hated "feature". The delay while it does the search, combined with everything shuffling around at the end of that delay is terrible for me.

Personally, if I want to use the web, I'll open a browser. That's not the role I have for my OS, I don't want. And if it does have that capability, providing an alternate search engine should be doable, and it should respect my default browser.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by rbobby »

cblconfederate wrote: post #61
flohofwoe wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No thanks, I'd rather have a simple and obvious checkbox to disable all this sleazy web crap in the Windows UI. If I want to search the web, I use a web browser. If I want to search my machine, I would like to use the Windows search feature ( if it would actually work).

By the same token we shouldn't need all that crap in omnibox either. It is all about the quality of information and decluttering

I quite like that the omni box will do math and unit conversions. So handy, so simple.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by smhenderson »

dagw wrote: post #40
mattowen_uk wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something I've noticed with my work machine. The homepage in Edge is some mangled mash up of Bing News tiles and my works' SharePoint activity, and is just branded 'Microsoft'. Non technical people stuck with this homepage are very likely to just type 'Google' into it to "get them out onto the Internet".

Yea, the Edge homepage is atrocious and looks like a spam site. I don't blame people for wanting to get away from it and to something that looks more trustworthy ASAP.

I finally got so fed up with Edge quietly changing my preferences back to their defaults I decided to completely stop using it. I have an MS account, Office 365 for work, etc. I thought, this is great, I'll continue using Firefox for personal and Edge for work, it integrates with my company account, that's neat.

But no, they can't leave well enough alone and just let me use my machine the way I want to. I don't want news on my work homepage, heck, even the weather widget bugs me because I can't turn it off.

So I found the Edge executable, added "off" to the end of the file name and now it's just sitting there, broken. I'm sure some update will come along and "fix" it for me but for now this slightly passive aggressive but mostly useless reaction on my part made me feel slightly better.

I'm not the same MS hater I was in the 1990's but sometimes they make it hard to forget that time, wish they would learn to get out of their own way and mine.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by mrweasel »

mavhc wrote: post #68
mrweasel wrote: post #63

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Given that Edge is Chromium based, what exactly makes you pick Chrome over Edge?

All my stuff is in Chrome, history, cookies, passwords

Some how not the answer I expected, but I can see the argument. I keep nothing in my browser, besides a few bookmarks, so it didn't occur to me that someone would care about those things being automatically transferred over.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by rbobby »

dagw wrote: post #40
mattowen_uk wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something I've noticed with my work machine. The homepage in Edge is some mangled mash up of Bing News tiles and my works' SharePoint activity, and is just branded 'Microsoft'. Non technical people stuck with this homepage are very likely to just type 'Google' into it to "get them out onto the Internet".

Yea, the Edge homepage is atrocious and looks like a spam site. I don't blame people for wanting to get away from it and to something that looks more trustworthy ASAP.

It wants me to download some app to change my desktop background?!? What is MS teaching people about safe internet browsing.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by dade_ »

dspillett wrote: post #55

I'm sure most of it isn't people searching for google though, it is people using the default search box in Edge or where-ever else Bing is the default search provider as if it is a smart address box, hammering in “google” without the .com (or other tld) and getting what they want as the first answer. I bet “facebook” is a very popular search term too for the same reason.

I do this all the time, I am used to the browser autocompleting the URL from history, but I think Edge was designed to maximize Bing searches to pump up usage numbers.
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