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Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com
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this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2025
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Usual Microsoft, using shady tactics instead of creating a better product or just focusing on their own thing and respecting user choice. They should grow up sometime.
They seem to pathologically not be able to help themselves, even with products that don't need to be promoted that way. I used Outlook for Android for years because it was actually quite good. Had a multi account inbox view, true dark mode, Galaxy Watch compatibility when those were all rather unusual features. But then they started trying to put Bing search in my long press menu system wide, using Outlook as the Trojan horse to do so, and I just found that too obnoxious
I don't think they can. They would need to rethink their company culture, but because the current one makes big numbers go up, they don't really have to change anything.