You can also see it for yourself without needing Windows or Edge by opening https://www.bing.com/search?q=google in Linux Chromium for example.
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#22Never quite understood the hate for Bing. I despise Microsoft, but Bing is fine. It's one of the least shit Microsoft products there is. It definitely wasn't competitive on release, but it's fine now.
To be fair I think this is a function of both Bing having gotten better and Google having gotten worse.
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#23Can't reproduce. Does it only happen from Edge?
Weirdly, it works for me on FireFox (I see the Google-like page) but not on Edge (where I just see a link for Google, no mimicry). I am not signed in on Edge.
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#24Removed. I see the scrolling happens for me in Chromium so that's not PCWorld's doing.
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#25Never quite understood the hate for Bing. I despise Microsoft, but Bing is fine. It's one of the least shit Microsoft products there is. It definitely wasn't competitive on release, but it's fine now. To be fair I think this is a function of both Bing having gotten better and Google having gotten worse.
Bing is ok. DDG is pretty much its anonymized version.
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#27Can'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…
The copilot feature is pretty handy.
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#28This removes a step for someone that would have searched for google and then clicked on the link and then done their real search, so overall it sounds like a nice improvement in the vast majority of cases. I don't expect many people that care about the difference between search engines to be using this method.
They're not actually making a google search if they use that search field. Microsoft is just presenting another Bing search field when people search "google" and showing that at the top of the page instead of the link they are ostensibly looking for.
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#29Can't reproduce. Does it only happen from Edge?
Works on Safari / Mac
Re: Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers
#30Never quite understood the hate for Bing. I despise Microsoft, but Bing is fine. It's one of the least shit Microsoft products there is. It definitely wasn't competitive on release, but it's fine now. To be fair I think this is a function of both Bing having gotten better and Google having gotten worse.
If I land on a Google page I search for Bing now. Colipot is included with Office and I'm signed in. Copilot is far more useful than Google search. I would use Bard (Gemini) but I don't have a work login for Google properties. Microsoft wins.