Removed. I see the scrolling happens for me in Chromium so that's not PCWorld's doing.
Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers
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Re: Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers
#12Can't reproduce. Does it only happen from Edge?
Re: Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers
#13Removed. I see the scrolling happens for me in Chromium so that's not PCWorld's doing.
Your second screenshot is scrolled up to show the top header bar that mentions Bing. The default page load scrolls down just enough to hide it (intentionally or otherwise).
Re: Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers
#14So google owns the "image and text box on a web page" design?
> " users are discovering that if they search for “Google” in the primary Bing interface, they’re shown a special Bing search page."
That's a little more than just aping the design of Google. It's a pretty intentional effort to deceive users into remaining on Bing.
Re: Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers
#15Removed. I see the scrolling happens for me in Chromium so that's not PCWorld's doing.
Your second screenshot is scrolled up to show the top header bar that mentions Bing. The default page load scrolls down just enough to hide it (intentionally or otherwise).
It's not doing it for me in Firefox but it is in Chromium.
Re: Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your second screenshot is scrolled up to show the top header bar that mentions Bing. The default page load scrolls down just enough to hide it (intentionally or otherwise).
It's not doing it for me in Firefox but it is in Chromium.
Sure. It also does it in Edge which is what all the articles are about, since Windows+Edge is the primary reason people end up using Bing by default.
Re: Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers
#17Can't reproduce. Does it only happen from Edge?
I reproduced in both Firefox on Windows 11 and Firefox on Debian.
Re: Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers
#18Can't reproduce. Does it only happen from Edge?
Works in Firefox on macOS.
Interestingly enough, you can already use Bings settings to disable all the cruft on bing.com. If you do that, I think the majority of users would not know the difference between Google and Bing, other than a more pleasant search experience and fewer ads (or no ads, I'm currently see zero ads or trackers on bing.com without any ad blocker).
Seems hard to justify staying on Google, when Bing yields the same or better results, and less ads.
Re: Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers
#19So google owns the "image and text box on a web page" design?
The story isn't "Bing is copying Google's amazing design." The story is bing devised a specialized search result page for the query "google" which is intentionally designed to trick its own users.
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#20Removed. I see the scrolling happens for me in Chromium so that's not PCWorld's doing.
The page automatically scrolls, 9to5google's article has a gif of it in action. https://9to5google.com/2025/01/06/bing-trick-users-google/