Why is the Bing search engine not working properly with Microsoft Edge?

It's scary. Microsoft and Apple are now 1 and 2 highest valued companies in the nation. The next three are also tech companies as well. But those two... they are the dominate scenario and technically speaking they would fall under the category of oligopoly. And sadly, these past ten years or so have shown that they are acting like it. At least in the EU, they call them on their **** and have no compunction about dragging their assess into court for anti-trust issues. But here in the States, we've become so corporatist and lenient these past thirty or so years that we are not anything like we were before. I never thought I would live to see the day when the majority of Americans would not just be so complacent about something like this but would actually behave as if these companies and others they adore (literally) not only couldn't but wouldn't dare anything wrong. As if they are real people. But then we live in an era where the social and cultural messaging and programming is so intense, especially in the area of promoting consumption and company loyalty via convincing us they really have feelings, etc., ad nausea that it's no wonder. It wasn't always like this, nor what existed was so ubiquitous and intense. I'm not talking about something that only began a decade ago, although it might seem like it to someone just noticing it now. It's been growing in intensity from at least the 1980s. Product loyalty... yes, that's always been a somewhat... but this entire giving ourselves over to the notion that capitalism has no bad cycle... at all, or that a company actually has yours or my best interests at heart is freaky. Really freaky. They should make Economics 101, Marketing and Advertising 101, and General Business 101, mandatory classes in high school. If for no other reason that because of the kind of culture we've create for ourselves. Those things surround everything we do and have eclipsed so many other areas. For all that is pushed at us in effort to convince us of nothing but lies, we should have the knowledge to understand it for what it is, recognize it when it's happening, and all the ways it is done.

I totally agree, you make excellent points. There are ways to survive without tech in this world but it is almost impossible in this country. I agree we should educate more about the rules of economics and the dangers of oligopoly.

It's scary. Microsoft and Apple are now 1 and 2 highest valued companies in the nation. The next three are also tech companies as well. But those two... they are the dominate scenario and technically speaking they would fall under the category of oligopoly. And sadly, these past ten years or so have shown that they are acting like it. At least in the EU, they call them on their **** and have no compunction about dragging their assess into court for anti-trust issues. But here in the States, we've become so corporatist and lenient these past thirty or so years that we are not anything like we were before. I never thought I would live to see the day when the majority of Americans would not just be so complacent about something like this but would actually behave as if these companies and others they adore (literally) not only couldn't but wouldn't dare anything wrong. As if they are real people. But then we live in an era where the social and cultural messaging and programming is so intense, especially in the area of promoting consumption and company loyalty via convincing us they really have feelings, etc., ad nausea that it's no wonder. It wasn't always like this, nor what existed was so ubiquitous and intense. I'm not talking about something that only began a decade ago, although it might seem like it to someone just noticing it now. It's been growing in intensity from at least the 1980s. Product loyalty... yes, that's always been a somewhat... but this entire giving ourselves over to the notion that capitalism has no bad cycle... at all, or that a company actually has yours or my best interests at heart is freaky. Really freaky. They should make Economics 101, Marketing and Advertising 101, and General Business 101, mandatory classes in high school. If for no other reason that because of the kind of culture we've create for ourselves. Those things surround everything we do and have eclipsed so many other areas. For all that is pushed at us in effort to convince us of nothing but lies, we should have the knowledge to understand it for what it is, recognize it when it's happening, and all the ways it is done.

Oh my goooshness! I've given up on waiting for such things. I used to send feedback all the time and then I realized that for all the good it did, they're all probably going to some spam folder or automated trash system at Microsoft. Because nothing gets addressed. The last time I did that, they finally gave up the ghost on the application I really liked using. It was MS shopping assistant, but it was riddled with glaring bugs and graphic issues. People complained and all we got for our efforts was the usual,

"Thank you for your feedback, we will be looking into the problem.... blah blah blah, your feedback is important to us.... blah blah blah."

The problem has been like this for at least the past two years I've been trying to use Bing, if not longer. I don't understand how a company with the value it has financially could put so much money into a search engine with the singular goal of competing with Google only to let it suck due to what is a bug. And a bug it is. And really, Google could use some real competition, because its' become such a commercialized monstrosity you have to download an add-on to block all the Amazon and Walmart listings that populate almost every search you do.

As for Bing, there are even browser add-ons (albeit complicated ones) that have been created just to get Bing to stop acting like the ugly stepchild it is. But that isn't anyone's responsibility to do, nor is it for you or me to have to run around doing all these "maintenance" type things in our browsers to get it to work. And no matter what browser you use, Bing does this. It isn't you. It isn't your browser. It is Bing and even worse, it is Microsoft. And yet Microsoft is the number one wealthiest company in the nation, followed by Apple in the number two spot. And both act like the wealthy sons of aristocracy only willing to do something if it benefits them, and it requires next to nothing from them.

They both respond to user complaints in the same manner. It's either your fault because you're an idiot, or they refuse to even acknowledge the complaints at all.

If a company decades ago behaved like either of these two before the growth of the massive tech companies of today, they wouldn't last long. Even Ma Bell had to watch her wretched step, and in the end even that witch was broken up (for all the good that did).

But today's multinationals are so massive, so divested, so otherworldly, that they can and do thumb their noses not only at their customers, but the very country that gave them opportunity to become what they have. And we should all be crapping in our panties over that. But instead, we love them like they're our mummies and daddies, and that's sick.

I agree, simply, Bing sucks. I avoid it. I think everyone should. There is no way to fix it. I think we all agree.

The problem has been like this for at least the past two years I've been trying to use Bing, if not longer. I don't understand how a company with the value it has financially could put so much money into a search engine with the singular goal of competing with Google only to let it suck due to what is a bug. And a bug it is. And really, Google could use some real competition, because its' become such a commercialized monstrosity you have to download an add-on to block all the Amazon and Walmart listings that populate almost every search you do.

As for Bing, there are even browser add-ons (albeit complicated ones) that have been created just to get Bing to stop acting like the ugly stepchild it is. But that isn't anyone's responsibility to do, nor is it for you or me to have to run around doing all these "maintenance" type things in our browsers to get it to work. And no matter what browser you use, Bing does this. It isn't you. It isn't your browser. It is Bing and even worse, it is Microsoft. And yet Microsoft is the number one wealthiest company in the nation, followed by Apple in the number two spot. And both act like the wealthy sons of aristocracy only willing to do something if it benefits them, and it requires next to nothing from them.

They both respond to user complaints in the same manner. It's either your fault because you're an idiot, or they refuse to even acknowledge the complaints at all.

If a company decades ago behaved like either of these two before the growth of the massive tech companies of today, they wouldn't last long. Even Ma Bell had to watch her wretched step, and in the end even that witch was broken up (for all the good that did).

But today's multinationals are so massive, so divested, so otherworldly, that they can and do thumb their noses not only at their customers, but the very country that gave them opportunity to become what they have. And we should all be crapping in our panties over that. But instead, we love them like they're our mummies and daddies, and that's sick.

Yes, they don't really care. I use as little of their garbage as I can. So I've moved everything I can and do what I can with my own programs. They are a necessary evil, certainly not my god or parent. They all eventually end up eating each other since there is always a bigger shark. I think their demise will be their precious AI. Time will tell.