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'New year, new low, Microsoft'—even the search engines are firing shots on social media now, as Google employees take aim at Bing over 'long history of tricks'

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Every day, it feels like we're hitting new levels of cultural division—with government officials taking to platforms to dunk, for some reason, and a rising tide of verbal slapfighting to which even your humble search engines are not immune.

Google has fired a verbal shot over the information highway, as per a recent post to X by the company's vice president and general manager of Chrome, Parisa Tabriz. «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. «New year; new low, Microsoft.» This dunk is in response to a recent, and certainly underhanded, trick by Microsoft to redirect you to a faux-Google webpage if you search for «Google» on Bing, a sort of eerie facsimile of Google's layout, complete with Google-esque clipart.

I just tested it now, and it's still happening, although the «Microsoft Bing» cookies request at the bottom does somewhat ruin the kayfabe.

As our own Joshua Wolens described it, «I'd bet a billion it'd hoodwink your less tech-literate family members and friends. You know, the kind of people who might find themselves doing a Bing search for 'Google'.» As for that «long history of tricks», Tabriz isn't entirely wrong.

Just last year, PC Gamer's own Rich Stanton was blindsided when the sheer audacity of a pop-up advertising Bing during his browsing that made him think he had some sketchy malware installed.

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