They do the absolute bare minimum updating its algorithm, if at all. The only reason companies align themselves with Bing as their default search engine is because they either hate Google or they get paid by Microsoft. Not quite as bad as Internet Explorer or Microsoft smartphones but it reminds me of those a bit.
Why is Google switching to Bing Google Automatically Switches To Bing – is a problem faced by users whose browser is hijacked by browser hijackers. A browser hijacker is a potentially unwanted program (PUP) that is a form of software created to change browser settings. In most cases, such software changes the home page, new.
Why do browser hijackers prefer Bing search engines?
Browser hijackers are a constant threat to millions of users around the world. Some even find a way to get into your browser via outdated extensions. In some cases, any malicious extension might be preferring the Bing search engine instead of Google.
The next thing we wondered was: why is Bing Redirecting my Search engines?
If Google is your default search engine, but every search query you type on it is redirected to Bing, then definitely a browser hijacker has compromised your system. As mentioned in the previous section, the browser hijacker might have altered your system settings, and that’s the reason search query is redirected to Bing without your permission.
Search engine keep changing to Bing on Chrome, Safari, Firefox or other browsers. The user can’t find a way to stop Google redirecting to Bing on Safari. The browser hijacker keeps the new search engine as default new tab page.
Most likely you get acceptable results with Bing, but you never see what you could have gotten with Google. Sure, when someone searches on Bing for “xxx yyy”, they’ll get some results that they’re happy with, but they’ll never see my page. And they’ll never even know that it exists.
Another thing we wanted the answer to was, how did Google kill Bing?
Google killed Bing by NOT trying to provide the best possible search results. Of course, to hear Googlers talk about their search engine, they always put quality first but their idea of quality is more quotidian than Microsoft’s. I used to see people complain about not being able to get their sites indexed in Bing all the time.
Why is it so hard to do well in Bing?
One of the reasons why it’s so hard for Website owners to do well in Bing is that the Web marketing community shares so little information about Bing. PPC marketers have a much better collective wisdom about Bing than the unpaid search marketers who scratch their heads over Bing.
How to prevent malware from using Bing search engine instead of Google?
In some cases, any malicious extension might be preferring the Bing search engine instead of Google. Because of that, the easiest solution is to disable all extensions and then enable only the ones you need one at a time.
Can I change the default search engine for Bing?
While Bing search results are good, many users would prefer using Google as their default engine for web searches. Unfortunately, the nature of Bing being the engine running Cortana, it doesn’t allow Microsoft to offer a setting to change which search engine to use to perform web searches.