> This is only funny because no one takes bing seriously.
But Microsoft is way more dangerous than Google. They've been using all the dirtiest tricks in the books since decades longer than Google. MSFT also has a market cap 30% greater than the one of GOOG.
Microsoft is known in the industry, all around the world, for illegal kickbacks (including to officials).
Google may be bad but Microsoft is just downright an evil company. In addition to that, as the old saying goes, the day Microsoft produces a product that won't suck, it's going to be a vacuum cleaner.
At least Google gave back a lot to open source and contributed a huge lot to Linux and to Linux's success.
I'm not saying Google is clean but they're not anywhere near as dirty as Microsoft.
The whole agenda / narrative that pushed by Microsoft shills atm is also all too obvious "You must break Google". I don't think so. I think it's Microsoft that should be broken up by anti-trust regulations enforcement.
Also, not using Android or Chrome is very feasible for almost everyone (thanks to iOS and Firefox/Chromium). Not using Windows is almost impossible for a large array of use cases and professions.
I think it's hilarious because they're doing the same shenanigans that Google does.
When you search on Google everything above the fold is not "a list of search results". Often it's a definition or conversion calculator or some other custom UI that isn't "a list of search results".
Microsoft has programmed Bing to do the exact same thing. Everything above the fold is a custom UI that coincidentally looks a lot like the Google Search engine. The Chef's kiss is that it scrolls down just the tiniest bit to put the Bing UI above the fold rather than hide it. This gives them plausible deniability.
It's brilliant and hilarious. I love it. I'm still not using Bing (or Google for that matter) but I love it.