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 ...

Microsoft has suddenly backtracked after being caught “ tricking ” users, with a homepage designed to look and feel like ...

Disgruntled with Bing, the user will search "Google" on Bing to get to their search engine of choice. However, instead of taking the user to the standard Bing results screen, the search engine ...

But as it now seems, Microsoft is reportedly using deceptive tactics to grow its market share against Google in the search landscape. Interestingly, if you attempt to use Bing to search for Google ...

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

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

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

Bing now displays a Google Search link as the first search result, eliminating confusion for users. Microsoft's confusing tactic for users was exposed; it's a small win for consumers. A week ago ...

Microsoft has quietly removed a deceptive user interface (UI) that mimicked Google 's look on its search engine, Bing. The move comes after the misleading UI was first spotted by Reddit users earlier ...

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, ...