Microsoft has a habit of using a variety of tricks to convince people to keep using the defaults of Bing and Microsoft Edge ...
This morning, users are discovering that if they search for “Google” in the primary Bing ... that this page appears whether you’re going to Bing.com directly or searching from the Edge ...
While Google and Microsoft go head-to-head over Chrome versus Edge and Google Search versus Bing, the much bigger spat is ...
This type of strategy is sometimes called a “dark pattern,” or a deceptive pattern that tricks users into doing something they did not intend. Below the Google-looking search bar, including a Google ...
Edge users earlier this month noticed that searching for Google would load the result in Bing, but with a spoofed Google UI.
This is still acceptable, considering the full-screen Edge, Bing, and Copilot pop-ups that appear when using Google Chrome on ...
Microsoft has suddenly backtracked after being caught “ tricking ” users, with a homepage designed to look and feel like ...
Microsoft removed its Google-like search box on Bing after being called out by the web and Google's Chrome VP. Bing now ...
Tricking people into using Bing and saying, "Gotcha, you weren't using Google this whole time," is not the way to go about ...
Microsoft has silently discontinued their faked Google UI, which was used to fool Bing users into thinking they were using ...
Microsoft is pulling yet another trick to get people to use its Bing search engine. If you use Bing right now without signing ...
But that being said, if a user wants Google and they search Bing to get it ... Microsoft’s push to move people off of Windows 10 is going, I wonder if they might benefit from a bit of serious ...