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

Microsoft is trying out another new tactic to stop people from switching to Google products -- and it's even dodgier than the ...

Microsoft has a habit of using a variety of tricks to convince people to keep using the defaults of Bing and Microsoft Edge ...

Google has suddenly hit back hard after Microsoft was seemingly caught capturing and diverting Google users within its Windows ecosystem. “New year, new low,” one Google exec posted on X, accusing the ...

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 ...

Despite requests to Google and Microsoft, police fail to get hold of Axel Rudakubana’s data after he deleted search log on ...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but Microsoft spoofing the Google homepage is another tactic in its long history of tricks to confuse users & limit choice. New year; new low ...

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but Microsoft spoofing the Google homepage is another tactic in its long history of tricks to confuse users & limit choice," Tabriz writes.

Windows Latest first spotted the situation, describing it as a “genius move to keep you from Google search.” It’s part of a larger pattern by Microsoft to get Google users to switch to Edge and Bing, ...

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