>Bing has become annoying about putting ads before real results, and often hiding the real results. Bing image search is awful about this
Comparing bing to google:
- Google has a number of "sponsored" results at the top of search results, which look identical to the actual search results, other than having a "sponsored".
- Searching for chrome on bing.com produces an Edge advert (the one you mention) at the top, but it has a grey background and is obviously not a search result.
- Searching for anything else (e.g. "online tutor") on bing does produce ads above the search results, similar to google, which look identical to search results, with the word "Ad" in front.
So, from what I can tell, Microsoft isn't really any worse than Google.
Comparing bing to google:
- Google has a number of "sponsored" results at the top of search results, which look identical to the actual search results, other than having a "sponsored".
- Searching for chrome on bing.com produces an Edge advert (the one you mention) at the top, but it has a grey background and is obviously not a search result.
- Searching for anything else (e.g. "online tutor") on bing does produce ads above the search results, similar to google, which look identical to search results, with the word "Ad" in front.
So, from what I can tell, Microsoft isn't really any worse than Google.