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Can't reproduce. Does it only happen from Edge?

Works in Firefox on macOS.

Interestingly enough, you can already use Bings settings to disable all the cruft on bing.com. If you do that, I think the majority of users would not know the difference between Google and Bing, other than a more pleasant search experience and fewer ads (or no ads, I'm currently see zero ads or trackers on bing.com without any ad blocker).

Seems hard to justify staying on Google, when Bing yields the same or better results, and less ads.

The copilot feature is pretty handy.

And, at least in the EU, we get LLM responses (via MS Copilot) on Bing, but no "AI Overview" on Google. Though seeing how poorly Google AI Overview on search works, I'd rather not have that offered to me.

You can just scroll past it you know

You can disable it entirely apparently. I just checked the settings on Bing and there is a "Copilot response on result page" which can simply be turned off.

That one good thing about Microsoft, they aren't afraid of offering the users settings.

Search for google in bing. At least that's how I can see it.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=google

I reproduced in both Firefox on Windows 11 and Firefox on Debian.

Weirdly, it works for me on FireFox (I see the Google-like page) but not on Edge (where I just see a link for Google, no mimicry). I am not signed in on Edge.

It doesn't work if you're logged in.

Works on Safari / Mac

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