Microsoft has a habit of using a variety of tricks to convince people to keep using the defaults of Bing and Microsoft Edge ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows Latest first spotted the situation, describing it as a “genius move to keep you from Google search.” It’s part of a larger pattern by Microsoft to get Google users to switch to Edge and Bing, ...

Microsoft is trying out another new tactic to stop people from switching to Google products -- and it's even dodgier than the ...

Microsoft designed Bing to look like Google when users search for "Google," automatically hiding Bing's branding. Google Chrome's head Parisa Tabriz publicly criticized the move as a "new low." ...

In today's digital landscape, mainstream search engines like Google and Bing control the flow of information, filtering ...

While Google and Microsoft go head-to-head over Chrome versus Edge and Google Search versus Bing, the much bigger spat is ...

As noticed by Windows Latest, searches for Chrome using Edge and via Bing (when signed out of your Microsoft account) on ...

This is still acceptable, considering the full-screen Edge, Bing, and Copilot pop-ups that appear when using Google Chrome on ...