Microsoft is pulling one more trick to get individuals to make use of its Bing search engine. If you utilize Bing proper now with out signing right into a Microsoft account and seek for Google, you’ll get a web page that appears an terrible lot like… Google.
It’s a transparent try from Microsoft to make Bing seem like Google for this particular search question, and different searches simply checklist the same old Bing search outcomes with out this particular interface. The Google outcome features a search bar, a picture that appears quite a bit like a Google Doodle, and even some small textual content beneath the search bar identical to Google does. Microsoft even robotically scrolls down the web page barely to masks its personal Bing search bar that seems on the high of search outcomes.
While Bing nonetheless surfaces search outcomes for Google beneath this spoofed Google UI, lots of people will see this interface after they configure a brand new PC and seek for Google within the tackle bar of Microsoft Edge. As 9to5Google factors out, it’s a sneaky transfer from Microsoft to attempt to hold individuals utilizing Bing as an alternative of switching to Google.
Google additionally has its personal notifications on its web sites to encourage individuals to obtain Chrome as an alternative of Microsoft Edge, however they’re nowhere close to as aggressive as Microsoft’s use of working system-level popups and web site modifications.
