• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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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.

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      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

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      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.

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    With Net Neutrality gone, these giant tech companies could start bidding to make ISPs make their search engine default and have the other competitors fail to load.

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    This is a genius move to keep you from Google search

    Seems more like a genius move to get slapped with another antitrust-like lawsuit.

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      I mean the original lawsuit was for aggressively bundling Internet Explorer and kneecapping other browsers. Which sure sounds a lot like a minor variation on what they’ve been doing with Edge and Bing for a while now, without consequences. Antitrust enforcement is not something I have a lot of confidence in for the foreseeable future.

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    The single thing Google did right when they first came out was a clean UI with a search bar on an uncluttered page.

    At the time the competitors had search pages cluttered with ads and news. It was so bad you couldn’t think.

    If Microsoft makes their search nice to look at them it’s going to get many more users

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    Don’t worry, “the mushroom will eat the fungus”. It may be the other way around, but whatever.

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    Wait, is Microsoft using Google’s copyrighted work on their page without authorization? This is going to get pulled so fast they’re gonna get whiplash.

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    This is a search engine showing open evidence of skewing results away from true for their own motivations. Slightly comic when it is Microsoft doing it to Google but if they do this so blatantly how else are they more subtly redirecting our searches towards biased or even false results that benefit them and misinform the user.

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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.