Google got fined for just setting the default search engine on Android as Google. At least you could change it. Meanwhile, Windows 10 uses Bing in the search bar and there’s no option to change or disable it.<p>It’s pretty irritation when I search for a specific file that I know exists on my computer, but the search bar decides to search Bing for results instead.<p>The only way to disable it is to edit the registry (!), which I recommend doing because now results from my computer are delivered instantly instead of having to wait for Bing to load.<p><a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/224159/how-to-disable-bing-in-the-windows-10-start-menu/" rel="nofollow">https://www.howtogeek.com/224159/how-to-disable-bing-in-the-...</a><p>People say Windows is more user friendly than Linux. I beg to differ.
Bing mobile app (Android) backend leaked 6.5TB of user data in September <a href="https://www.wizcase.com/blog/bing-leak-research/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wizcase.com/blog/bing-leak-research/</a> "The exposed data includes: [...] Search Terms in clear text, excluding the ones entered in private mode [...] Location Coordinates"
Is there anything that Bing does better than any other search engine?<p>I know DuckDuckGo is supposedly private. And has bangs & cheat sheets. But what is Bing's competitive edge? Heard it's good at images.