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 ...

A week ago, people started noticing that if you searched the word Google on Bing, you'd get a result displaying a search box ...

Now, Bing is hiding the Google search results and placing when you search Bing for the term Google. Plus, Bing is showing a ...

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

In well over a decade of journalism, I've seen a fair amount of copied designs, but I've never seen anything as blatant as ...

It looks like software giant Microsoft is up to some not-so-productive behavior after being accused of tricking searchers on ...

In a sneaky new move, Microsoft is trying to hide that people are using Bing when they try to get to Google. The new behavior, first spotted by Windows Latest, sees Bing’s search results page very ...

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, ...

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

Microsoft is trying out a pretty unusual strategy to stop Bing users from switching to Google when they need to search for something. As spotted by Reddit users, and reported on by Windows Latest, ...

Microsoft is pulling yet another trick to get people to use its Bing search engine. If you use Bing right now without signing ...