Microsoft uses Bing to discourage Windows 10 users from using Chrome and Firefox

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I haven't seen that message from Bing. However, when I go to Google in IE, I get the same type of message. It says: "A better way to browse the web" and "Get Google Chrome".

Google has been doing this for years. Of course, that wasn't news.

Note that Google is showing its message -- which is essentially an advertisement -- on a search page that has a monopoly market share. Nobody else can buy advertising there.

I've seen that too and it is one of the things that have made me more critical of Google and the way it does things. I still use Google Search but I avoid everything else the company produces.

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