Microsoft is using Bing to trick people into thinking they’re on Google

Microsoft is pulling yet different instrumentality to get radical to usage its Bing hunt engine. If you usage Bing close present without signing into a Microsoft relationship and hunt for Google, you’ll get a leafage that looks an atrocious batch like... Google.

It’s a wide effort from Microsoft to marque Bing look similar Google for this circumstantial hunt query, and different searches conscionable database the accustomed Bing hunt results without this peculiar interface. The Google result includes a hunt bar, an representation that looks a batch similar a Google Doodle, and adjacent immoderate tiny substance nether the hunt barroom conscionable similar Google does. Microsoft adjacent automatically scrolls down the leafage somewhat to disguise its ain Bing hunt barroom that appears astatine the apical of hunt results.

While Bing inactive surfaces hunt results for Google underneath this spoofed Google UI, a batch of radical volition spot this interface erstwhile they configure a caller PC and hunt for Google successful the code barroom of Microsoft Edge. As 9to5Google points out, it’s a sneaky determination from Microsoft to effort and support radical utilizing Bing alternatively of switching to Google.

Microsoft has a wont of this benignant of behavior, too. We’ve been cataloging each trick Microsoft has utilized to person radical to power to Bing oregon Edge alternatively of Google and Chrome implicit the past fewer years. Microsoft has modified Chrome download sites, added pop-up ads into Google Chrome connected Windows, injected polls into Chrome download pages, and adjacent utilized malware-like popups to get radical to ditch Google.

Google besides has its ain notifications connected its websites to promote radical to download Chrome alternatively of Microsoft Edge, but they’re obscurity adjacent arsenic assertive arsenic Microsoft’s usage of operating system-level popups and website modifications.