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Bing Really Doesn’t Want You To Search Google

Go to Bing.com and search for [google], you may see Bing get a bit upset. In fact, when I search for Google at Bing, I get a big black box in the search box that says, “In blind tests, people preferred Bing to Google for the web’s top searches. See for yourself.” Here is a […]

Barry Schwartz on November 4, 2013 at 9:20 am
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Go to Bing.com and search for [google], you may see Bing get a bit upset. In fact, when I search for Google at Bing, I get a big black box in the search box that says, “In blind tests, people preferred Bing to Google for the web’s top searches. See for yourself.”

Here is a picture of the call-out box:

bing-search-google

Andrew Girdwood asks if this type of call-out box should be labeled as an ad of some sort. Clearly, the intent here is someone trying to find Google. So why is Bing encouraging the searcher to go elsewhere? Is that a good and relevant alternative to the query?

We’ve seen time after time where competitors bidding on trademarked names get sued or sue the search engines for allowing it. But this is taking it to a new level.

To be fair, I don’t think Bing was the first to do this with their search engine.

If you want to know, Google does not return the same type of search result for when you search in Google for [bing].



About The Author

Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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