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dantheclamman to [email protected]English • 6 months ago

Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com

www.windowslatest.com

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Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com

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dantheclamman to [email protected]English • 6 months ago
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    Remember when they proved that bing was just providing google search results?

    Like it straight up sent your search query to google search and fed back the results in the bing skin.

    Edit: i am uncertain that this is true, after a search i found this article from 2011

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12343597#:~:text="We noticed that URLs from,or the Bing Search toolbar.

    This is what i was referring to. I explicitly remember reading this story, either on bbc or somewhere else, back then but i didnt look into it any further at the time.

    I have had a quick look around (im in work) and there is a possibility that it was never proven. But i dont have a reliable source to show that at the moment. If anyone wants to fact check, be my guest. But please dont, as another poser did downvote my comment and post images of a google and bing search you did just now as evidence that my claim is false without looking into the validity of my claim.

    The link above is from 2011, as i said, and shows what i was claiming.

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      I’ll need a source for that.

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        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12343597#:~:text="We noticed that URLs from,or the Bing Search toolbar.

        Think this covers it but i havent got time at this moment to read through it.

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      Just try yourself, the claim is obviously false.

      https://www.bing.com/search?pc=MOZI&form=MOZLBR&q=bullshit
      https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=bullshit

      The results here are nothing alike.
      Her I have the first result on Google being “Prime video”, which does not occur on the first page of Bing.
      On Bing the first result is Wikipedia English, where Google has Wikipedia Danish as 2nd result, and the English not occuring on first page.

      spoiler

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        This was back in 2011

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12343597#:~:text="We noticed that URLs from,or the Bing Search toolbar.

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