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PC Gamer
Joshua Wolens

Microsoft's latest trick to get you using Bing is disguising it as Google

A Bing search bar that looks a lot like a Google search bar.

Let me use this introductory paragraph to make two horrible confessions. The first: I am one of perhaps several people worldwide who use Microsoft Edge as my default personal browser. Second: My use of Edge means I sometimes accidentally use Bing, Microsoft's Google-but-worse, whenever I search for something in the URL bar. I could go into the settings and switch my default search engine, but no, I prefer to feel the hot sting of shame whenever I search for something and get precisely not what I'm looking for. Also it gets me Microsoft points or something.

Most people aren't me, though, and quite sensibly use browsers that surpass 'basically fine' and search engines that do better than 'worthless', which is presumably why Microsoft seems to be trying to trick Bing users into thinking they're actually on Google. As spotted by Windows Latest, if you open up a Bing tab right now and use it to search 'Google', the search engine will return a big honking box that looks suspiciously like Google on top of the regular search results. Here's an example to save you the psychic damage of using Bing yourself.

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