Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has quietly killed off its spoofed Google UI that it was ...

But the quick change in design is probably just enough to get someone to perform an extra search or two on Bing ... of moves from both Microsoft and Google in the search engine battle.

A few days ago, the search engine Bing was caught trying to look like Google Search. Now, Microsoft has quietly stopped its attempts to make people think they are using Google Search instead of Bing.

When users look up Google using Bing, the Microsoft-owned search engine displays a Google Doodle lookalike. The deceptive webpage could trick unsuspecting users into staying on Bing, as its layout ...

Microsoft's Bing search engine has always played second fiddle to Google, which owns the lion's share of search globally. In fact, one of the most common searches on Bing is "Google." It appears ...

likely aiming to retain users who might switch to Google. The interface reverts back once users log in or search for different terms, reflecting Microsoft’s ongoing strategies to promote Bing.