Microsoft just found a new way to make you choose Bing instead of Google

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Microsoft just found a new way to make you choose Bing instead of Google
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If you try to access Google through the Bing search engine right now, Microsoft will play a little prank on you.

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, if you type “ Google ” into Bing right now, you’ll be taken to a results page with a special header that happens to look similar to the Google search bar.

Basically, if you’re not thinking too hard about it, it feels like Bing skipped the results page where you would have clicked on the Google link and just took you straight to the Google homepage.

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