To be fair I think this is a function of both Bing having gotten better and Google having gotten worse.
Given Microsoft is “soo enterprise” it’s always a source of amazement that Microsoft feel it’s acceptable to default to this kind of spammy behaviour.
It just goes to show how running businesses by engagement scores really is just a race to the bottom.
I think google may be starting to do something similar too. I think I got caught in an A/B test a week or so ago. Little bits of news popping on the landing page. Off to the settings to turn that off. Which then somehow messed up the settings on my phone as well.
Computers doing 'surprising things' makes users angry and feel like they do not have control.
The most painful for me was a set of wikis filled with AI-generated nonsense about OCaml and some other niche languages, which completely shadowed genuine content on the first page of any search.