Microsoft has a habit of using a variety of tricks to convince people to keep using the defaults of Bing and Microsoft Edge in Windows, including modifying Chrome download sites and using malware-like ...

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

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 ...

Bing is a perfectly fine search engine, but the joke is true. For many, Bing is just a way to get to Google. In a sneaky new move, Microsoft is trying to hide that people are using Bing when they ...

Bing now displays a Google Search link as the first search result ... updates across Windows operating systems, or the many tricks used to try to get people to switch to the Edge browser.

Any other search will restore Bing’s standard UI ... And unfortunately, many of us fall for far less clever tricks on a regular basis. Whatever the case, if this nefarious trick keeps even ...

Bing Search, Bing Visual Search ... The app itself, however, seems to be concealing some shady tricks, with Microsoft trying its best to shovel its services on potentially unsuspecting users.

Microsoft designed Bing to look like Google when users search for "Google," automatically ... labeling it “another tactic in its long history of tricks to confuse users and limit choice.” ...