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

Why can't Microsoft fix the problem instead of telling the customer it's trial and error it's Microsofts problem they should fix it not using consumers as Lab Rats.

Many, many people have been asking this very question for almost 2 years now. We have contacted support numerous times, but they don't respond or respond with useless fixes. Or they say they are working on it. They have been "working on it' for over 1 1/2 years. Most of us have just ditched Bing altogether. As you can see from the posts here many agree with you. They need to fix the programs, but apparently they don't have a clue what they are doing. Many of us have moved everything to Google. At least their techs help and their programs work. Gemini is very efficient.

It isn't that they do not know what they are doing. There are other factors to consider and I will outline only a few of them below. 

1. They don't care.
2. They don't wish to allocate the money and resources to the problem as they do not believe the problem is serious enough that most users give a care too switch to another search engine for. Therefore there is no profit motive in it. 
3. Microsoft, like Apple, Amazon, and many other major multinational corporations are now so large, so vast in reach and scope, so flush with cash, that they are beyond the reach and concerns of what was once traditionally considered normal market and business concerns of yesteryear. This is a new world order in economics and as such the old economic laws or theories are not applying anymore. It's a game based on numbers––massive numbers. And only a handful of people and a small percentage of the population is massively profiting from it.

It used to be that any concern for consumer disapproval or discontentment was a major concern and would often result in a company turning on a dime to rectify whatever caused that displeasure. However, things are now much different than they were twenty years ago. Companies as mentioned above and those like them are so massive, so diversified, and so hugely spread throughout the world AND most off all. . . have created such a dependence upon them by not just us as consumers, but governments and everyone else in between that they do not have to care any longer. Especially when it concerns the dependency on computer technologies so embedded in just about everything such as Unix/Apple and Microsoft.

These companies can statistically size up the displeasure amongst various groups within populations and determine whether or not that discontent is going to cost them and if so... how much. Then they can decide if the cost of that loss is worth the expense in cash now or foreseen in the future OR in some other facet of the corporation's interests of which there are many. And if they determine that the size of that discontent matter's little over the long haul, they will let it ride thus provide every excuse, paper promise, or lie to keep people believing they still are concerned about their loyalty to their brands.

This is no different from when Ford during the 1970s calculated the risk of knowingly selling a deadly car such as the Pinto against what it might cost them in lawsuits and settlements. Ford determined that the amount in lawsuits would not be as large as the profits and thus put the car on the market anyway.

Thus, people died, and died horribly. And those that didn't were horribly maimed and lived the rest of their lives in that way.

Thankfully, at that time we still had a society that saw this as a heinous affront and they were held accountable. Once the truth was found out that is. That was done by Ralph Nader at the time.

Today there are no Ralph Naders or anyone of his kind. We chastise such people, demonize them, marginalize them, and look down upon them as goody two-shoes or worse.

Weaklings not concerned about getting ahead in life.

Thus, today, we have the same thing going on within the pharmaceutical industry as well as the the American healthcare industry on the whole. But it isn't limited there. It's now the norm for our food industry, housing and real estate, and on and on.

But today's society is vastly different than that of two or three generations ago. We've become very managerialist in our thinking and attitudes. We consider the wealthy our benefactors and heroes and approach life and almost all aspects of it from a very business oriented manner. In other words, we give huge passes to business and the wealthy because that's how we've been taught since the 1980s. We are now two generations deep into this situation, and thus few have the perspective of knowing the difference unless your in your late fifties or further. And even then, many in that age group had long since been indoctrinated over that time as well. It's a cultural dilemma that few if any are speaking of, or if it is, it isn't getting out there. Not that I believe anyone would care to listen anyway. It's been referred to as social decay or mass psychosis. But does it matter what one calls it? It's the cultural norm.

Now the key factor to this, if you can read between the lines is this. . .

When it comes to corporations this size considering the discontent towards their products, it isn't like before where that concern was within a limited pool the size of the U.S. or smaller. We are now talking not tens or even hundreds of millions of customers here. We are talking billions. But even if it were in the hundreds of millions, and remember the U.S., alone is the third largest population in the world behind China and India at 340 million, then hundreds of millions is not much to be worried about. Especially when corporations of this size (and smaller) are now so widely divested in so many industries, what they may lose in one, they make up much more in the others. You may know a company as Microsoft, or Monsanto, or MSNBC, but do you know the long list of corporations and investments they own that makes them as much if not more in profits than the one brand you know them as? Probably not.

This is a widely and quickly developing world that has been on the fast track since the late 1990s. That was what this and the World Summit meetings have all been about ever since. Why do you think the riots in Seattle occured two decades ago? And why do you think that as a result of those protests and others around the world at the time have led to those summits being convened in far off locales where ordinary folk cannot reach? Why do you think those meetings are held only between Government leaders and business leaders only?

The main reasons are so to increase the rights and freedoms of companies over the individual. To reduce or eliminate protections, regulations, and the means of not just individuals but their governments to ever hold corporations responsible for malfeasance. And to write or re-write laws that further strengthen the control of corporations holds and aspirations to world resources (of which humans are considered and always have been) and of course to open up all world markets so as to eliminate or reduce the need for massive companies to be concerned about the loss of profits due to having to bend over backwards to continue pleasing a few hundred million discontent consumers. 

This is only one more aspect of what some keep trying to warn people about regarding the dark cycle of unbridled capitalism.

For too long now we've allowed ourselves to believe in an illogical and foolish lie. That capitalism is all good, that resources are infinite, and that unregulated capitalism is self-policing and self-regulating. Oh, and that there is no down side or dark cycle (not side) to capitalism.

And what I keep asking is how?

How could so many who've most likely taken at least one, maybe two years of Economics could possibly allow themselves to believe the lie as it had been continuously thrown out there by the media these past four decades? We all read the same text books supposedly, did we not? 

But it was an easy lie to convince us of. At least those who cared to think about it, or remember, or give a damn.

That lie, and so many others all depended on convincing the masses at giving into the lowest modes of behavior of our species; greed, selfishness, envy, gluttony, and insecurity. That is what our entire value system is based upon beneath all the more euphemistic traits extolled. Those such as, fulfillment of desire, primary concern for one's self interests, the individual being of the highest worth through hyper individualization, and thus one's concern solely for one's own rights and freedoms at the expense of those of others. To name just a few. Those values all ultimately contribute and lead to one major benefit and for a very small percentage of people. They lead us to work, work hard, compete, and become machines. They lead us to earn what we're given and appreciate it and then spend it on the goods and services we produce. And today, more than in a century few of us are seeing anywhere near our share of the profits of that production. We may think so, but the numbers prove otherwise, and it only took four decades.

But how do you combat this? Especially when our education system has been so dumbed down. Not just from a grade school and high school level, but from a university level, beginning in the 1970s. There is good reason why the demonizing of liberal arts and humanities began during that time, one of which is that subjects of that kind awaken the mind to the real issues that have kept humans oppressed, enslaved, at war, and foolish. The educated generations of the 1950s through the 70s demonstrated that. Ever since, those subjects of higher learning have been largely minimized and made hard to attain. You can earn a Business degree in your spare time, but you will be hard pressed to study anthropology, history, languages, philsophy, in a way that could get you through to a MA.

Worse, today higher education on the whole has been demonized and it took only one simple message as a result of an economic problem few were willing to either understand, or even care about. An outrageous debt burden created by the private financial industry who were allowed to enter into the student lawn arena. That and the ever increasing costs created due to greed essentially. Everyone wants more than what they had. Everyone wants to live like princes and princesses. And ever since the 1980s the idea has been; bigger, better, faster, more. That is what causes inflation. Not that everyone is buying more soap and toothpaste than before. Again, another amplification of a lie in economics. So,as a result of this over burdening cost this is the first generation of Americans who will not be able to take part in the economy as their parents did. In fact, it is an economic disaster on the cusp and we've little time left before we begin to implode. Biden, knowing this did what he knew he had to do and chose to relieve them of this unfair burden, but the conservative think tanks were very successful through the full cooperation of the for profit corporate media in convincing everyone that doing so was at the cost of their so-called tax dollars. Which it wasn't. But people live and act through fear, insecurity, and selfish self interest. 

Look. 

Life is complicated. The world is complicated. People are complicated... but not so much as not to be understood by their motives. 

Yet, Westerners, particularly Americans don't want to hear it. Nor do they want long explanations, deep and complex tracings in thought, statistics, psychology, history, etc. etc. So, what I've outlined above is only a tiny point on the head of a pin and even this I can assure you is far too much for most to either care to read or can read for very long. 

So. . . .

We reap what we sow. What? Blame the rich? Ahhhh.. They're just doing what rich people do, living through avarice and insecurity where enough is never enough. Blame the corporations? Pshaw... They're just doing what companies are suposed to do––make a profit above all else and in any way possible. Blame politicians? Piffle. They're doing exactly what they're ambitions direct them to do.

No. It's us. It is our responsibility to stay on top of things and it always has been. Old Ben Franklin and those who thought like him said that democracy is not just a tedious but a slow acting beast that is ever so vulnerable and easily dispensed with. And that it takes not just an educated, but a highly educated society to even hope to maintain one. That was why we have or had a free education system. We were to remember that the biggest thing that stood in the way of the wealthy (the ruling class) was freedom and democracy. But a successful lie has always been one to convince those at the bottom that you are just like them, that you are concerned about their well-being, and that you will stand by their side and make life good for them. All the while convincing them that the reasons for their troubles are due to someone or something else. Find a straw man, a scapegoat, and press and press until that lie becomes truth. It's very easy to do, has been done countless time in history, and no society is ever immune to it. Even more so, we were to learn to think before we act, to value wisdom, compassion, and concern for others. Not to place importance or value on pretty baubles, large houses, and three wide screens in every room instead. We were not to just wave our flags and express our patriotism, but to act on it. That is the difference between us and other nations. Where as we were our patriotism on our sleeves but do little else, other societies rarely show their flags, or such but instead demand, protest, and involved themselves in their government. In fact many of them know more about how our government works than most Americans do. Instead, we allowed the wonders of the industrial and mechanical revolution to hypnotize us into a materialist and then consumerist stupor. That, and roughly two or three good decades to define us for all its worth, long after we had begun to fall into decline.

Most of the world sees the rich and their politicians in this way, but we instead chose to abdicated our responsibility. Ours was not to see them as hired extensions. We were to pay attention, learn who they are, what they stand for, and what their past actions have been to help. Had we done this right along perhaps we wouldn't have lost the original ideals of the U.S., roughly seventy or so years after the signing of the constitution. But we did. And we lost it entirely to the very type of people we fought a revolution to free ourselves from. LOL. The greatest joke in human history and that is us.

This is our mess, and the fun times are only just beginning. All these things and so much more have been written about, discussed, proselytize, and more for not just decades but going as far back as our philosophers have spoken about. What more can be done? When people en masse refuse to listen let alone read, learn, or spend any time at all doing anything other than worrying about getting their hair and nails done tomorrow, playing their video games tonight, or spending hours on Facebook arguing with idiots and bots?

Nothing.

I understand exactly what you are saying. But I believe you are preaching to the choir. What I need is a program that works because I have to feed my family in this insane world. This world that requires technology. I’m not playing video games or watching sitcoms. I know they don’t care. That is why I’ve moved to Google. At least at Gemini they pretend enough to care so I can get my work done and feed my family . I think most people posting here have similar concerns or they would not be seeking help from total strangers online.. We know big corporations don’t care about us, that is exactly why we are trying to help each other.

There have been many large famous corporations that have gone bankrupt by not listening to customer demands and not having the best new innovations. Companies that thought they were invincible.

Microsoft is falling behind others and. their not caring may very well put them in the same positions as Pan Am, Enron, Circuit City, Blockbuster, Kodak, and Compaq.

Microsoft does not care. They will when their stock drops. Because their new products don’t work and their old ones still have the same problems we have been experiencing for years. There are many better options now. They need to wake up or join Polaroid., Radio Shack and all the other “used to bes”.

It isn't that they do not know what they are doing. There are other factors to consider and I will outline only a few of them below. 

1. They don't care.
2. They don't wish to allocate the money and resources to the problem as they do not believe the problem is serious enough that most users give a care too switch to another search engine for. Therefore there is no profit motive in it. 
3. Microsoft, like Apple, Amazon, and many other major multinational corporations are now so large, so vast in reach and scope, so flush with cash, that they are beyond the reach and concerns of what was once traditionally considered normal market and business concerns of yesteryear. This is a new world order in economics and as such the old economic laws or theories are not applying anymore. It's a game based on numbers––massive numbers. And only a handful of people and a small percentage of the population is massively profiting from it.

It used to be that any concern for consumer disapproval or discontentment was a major concern and would often result in a company turning on a dime to rectify whatever caused that displeasure. However, things are now much different than they were twenty years ago. Companies as mentioned above and those like them are so massive, so diversified, and so hugely spread throughout the world AND most off all. . . have created such a dependence upon them by not just us as consumers, but governments and everyone else in between that they do not have to care any longer. Especially when it concerns the dependency on computer technologies so embedded in just about everything such as Unix/Apple and Microsoft.

These companies can statistically size up the displeasure amongst various groups within populations and determine whether or not that discontent is going to cost them and if so... how much. Then they can decide if the cost of that loss is worth the expense in cash now or foreseen in the future OR in some other facet of the corporation's interests of which there are many. And if they determine that the size of that discontent matter's little over the long haul, they will let it ride thus provide every excuse, paper promise, or lie to keep people believing they still are concerned about their loyalty to their brands.

This is no different from when Ford during the 1970s calculated the risk of knowingly selling a deadly car such as the Pinto against what it might cost them in lawsuits and settlements. Ford determined that the amount in lawsuits would not be as large as the profits and thus put the car on the market anyway.

Thus, people died, and died horribly. And those that didn't were horribly maimed and lived the rest of their lives in that way.

Thankfully, at that time we still had a society that saw this as a heinous affront and they were held accountable. Once the truth was found out that is. That was done by Ralph Nader at the time.

Today there are no Ralph Naders or anyone of his kind. We chastise such people, demonize them, marginalize them, and look down upon them as goody two-shoes or worse.

Weaklings not concerned about getting ahead in life.

Thus, today, we have the same thing going on within the pharmaceutical industry as well as the the American healthcare industry on the whole. But it isn't limited there. It's now the norm for our food industry, housing and real estate, and on and on.

But today's society is vastly different than that of two or three generations ago. We've become very managerialist in our thinking and attitudes. We consider the wealthy our benefactors and heroes and approach life and almost all aspects of it from a very business oriented manner. In other words, we give huge passes to business and the wealthy because that's how we've been taught since the 1980s. We are now two generations deep into this situation, and thus few have the perspective of knowing the difference unless your in your late fifties or further. And even then, many in that age group had long since been indoctrinated over that time as well. It's a cultural dilemma that few if any are speaking of, or if it is, it isn't getting out there. Not that I believe anyone would care to listen anyway. It's been referred to as social decay or mass psychosis. But does it matter what one calls it? It's the cultural norm.

Now the key factor to this, if you can read between the lines is this. . .

When it comes to corporations this size considering the discontent towards their products, it isn't like before where that concern was within a limited pool the size of the U.S. or smaller. We are now talking not tens or even hundreds of millions of customers here. We are talking billions. But even if it were in the hundreds of millions, and remember the U.S., alone is the third largest population in the world behind China and India at 340 million, then hundreds of millions is not much to be worried about. Especially when corporations of this size (and smaller) are now so widely divested in so many industries, what they may lose in one, they make up much more in the others. You may know a company as Microsoft, or Monsanto, or MSNBC, but do you know the long list of corporations and investments they own that makes them as much if not more in profits than the one brand you know them as? Probably not.

This is a widely and quickly developing world that has been on the fast track since the late 1990s. That was what this and the World Summit meetings have all been about ever since. Why do you think the riots in Seattle occured two decades ago? And why do you think that as a result of those protests and others around the world at the time have led to those summits being convened in far off locales where ordinary folk cannot reach? Why do you think those meetings are held only between Government leaders and business leaders only?

The main reasons are so to increase the rights and freedoms of companies over the individual. To reduce or eliminate protections, regulations, and the means of not just individuals but their governments to ever hold corporations responsible for malfeasance. And to write or re-write laws that further strengthen the control of corporations holds and aspirations to world resources (of which humans are considered and always have been) and of course to open up all world markets so as to eliminate or reduce the need for massive companies to be concerned about the loss of profits due to having to bend over backwards to continue pleasing a few hundred million discontent consumers. 

This is only one more aspect of what some keep trying to warn people about regarding the dark cycle of unbridled capitalism.

For too long now we've allowed ourselves to believe in an illogical and foolish lie. That capitalism is all good, that resources are infinite, and that unregulated capitalism is self-policing and self-regulating. Oh, and that there is no down side or dark cycle (not side) to capitalism.

And what I keep asking is how?

How could so many who've most likely taken at least one, maybe two years of Economics could possibly allow themselves to believe the lie as it had been continuously thrown out there by the media these past four decades? We all read the same text books supposedly, did we not? 

But it was an easy lie to convince us of. At least those who cared to think about it, or remember, or give a damn.

That lie, and so many others all depended on convincing the masses at giving into the lowest modes of behavior of our species; greed, selfishness, envy, gluttony, and insecurity. That is what our entire value system is based upon beneath all the more euphemistic traits extolled. Those such as, fulfillment of desire, primary concern for one's self interests, the individual being of the highest worth through hyper individualization, and thus one's concern solely for one's own rights and freedoms at the expense of those of others. To name just a few. Those values all ultimately contribute and lead to one major benefit and for a very small percentage of people. They lead us to work, work hard, compete, and become machines. They lead us to earn what we're given and appreciate it and then spend it on the goods and services we produce. And today, more than in a century few of us are seeing anywhere near our share of the profits of that production. We may think so, but the numbers prove otherwise, and it only took four decades.

But how do you combat this? Especially when our education system has been so dumbed down. Not just from a grade school and high school level, but from a university level, beginning in the 1970s. There is good reason why the demonizing of liberal arts and humanities began during that time, one of which is that subjects of that kind awaken the mind to the real issues that have kept humans oppressed, enslaved, at war, and foolish. The educated generations of the 1950s through the 70s demonstrated that. Ever since, those subjects of higher learning have been largely minimized and made hard to attain. You can earn a Business degree in your spare time, but you will be hard pressed to study anthropology, history, languages, philsophy, in a way that could get you through to a MA.

Worse, today higher education on the whole has been demonized and it took only one simple message as a result of an economic problem few were willing to either understand, or even care about. An outrageous debt burden created by the private financial industry who were allowed to enter into the student lawn arena. That and the ever increasing costs created due to greed essentially. Everyone wants more than what they had. Everyone wants to live like princes and princesses. And ever since the 1980s the idea has been; bigger, better, faster, more. That is what causes inflation. Not that everyone is buying more soap and toothpaste than before. Again, another amplification of a lie in economics. So,as a result of this over burdening cost this is the first generation of Americans who will not be able to take part in the economy as their parents did. In fact, it is an economic disaster on the cusp and we've little time left before we begin to implode. Biden, knowing this did what he knew he had to do and chose to relieve them of this unfair burden, but the conservative think tanks were very successful through the full cooperation of the for profit corporate media in convincing everyone that doing so was at the cost of their so-called tax dollars. Which it wasn't. But people live and act through fear, insecurity, and selfish self interest. 

Look. 

Life is complicated. The world is complicated. People are complicated... but not so much as not to be understood by their motives. 

Yet, Westerners, particularly Americans don't want to hear it. Nor do they want long explanations, deep and complex tracings in thought, statistics, psychology, history, etc. etc. So, what I've outlined above is only a tiny point on the head of a pin and even this I can assure you is far too much for most to either care to read or can read for very long. 

So. . . .

We reap what we sow. What? Blame the rich? Ahhhh.. They're just doing what rich people do, living through avarice and insecurity where enough is never enough. Blame the corporations? Pshaw... They're just doing what companies are suposed to do––make a profit above all else and in any way possible. Blame politicians? Piffle. They're doing exactly what they're ambitions direct them to do.

No. It's us. It is our responsibility to stay on top of things and it always has been. Old Ben Franklin and those who thought like him said that democracy is not just a tedious but a slow acting beast that is ever so vulnerable and easily dispensed with. And that it takes not just an educated, but a highly educated society to even hope to maintain one. That was why we have or had a free education system. We were to remember that the biggest thing that stood in the way of the wealthy (the ruling class) was freedom and democracy. But a successful lie has always been one to convince those at the bottom that you are just like them, that you are concerned about their well-being, and that you will stand by their side and make life good for them. All the while convincing them that the reasons for their troubles are due to someone or something else. Find a straw man, a scapegoat, and press and press until that lie becomes truth. It's very easy to do, has been done countless time in history, and no society is ever immune to it. Even more so, we were to learn to think before we act, to value wisdom, compassion, and concern for others. Not to place importance or value on pretty baubles, large houses, and three wide screens in every room instead. We were not to just wave our flags and express our patriotism, but to act on it. That is the difference between us and other nations. Where as we were our patriotism on our sleeves but do little else, other societies rarely show their flags, or such but instead demand, protest, and involved themselves in their government. In fact many of them know more about how our government works than most Americans do. Instead, we allowed the wonders of the industrial and mechanical revolution to hypnotize us into a materialist and then consumerist stupor. That, and roughly two or three good decades to define us for all its worth, long after we had begun to fall into decline.

Most of the world sees the rich and their politicians in this way, but we instead chose to abdicated our responsibility. Ours was not to see them as hired extensions. We were to pay attention, learn who they are, what they stand for, and what their past actions have been to help. Had we done this right along perhaps we wouldn't have lost the original ideals of the U.S., roughly seventy or so years after the signing of the constitution. But we did. And we lost it entirely to the very type of people we fought a revolution to free ourselves from. LOL. The greatest joke in human history and that is us.

This is our mess, and the fun times are only just beginning. All these things and so much more have been written about, discussed, proselytize, and more for not just decades but going as far back as our philosophers have spoken about. What more can be done? When people en masse refuse to listen let alone read, learn, or spend any time at all doing anything other than worrying about getting their hair and nails done tomorrow, playing their video games tonight, or spending hours on Facebook arguing with idiots and bots?

Nothing.

I have similar issues but a bit difrent. When ever I search for something like a phraze the bing doesn't work, it says that the url is incorect or something but when I use it chrome (exact same url i literary copied an pasted it in to chrome it works) Sadly i have no idea how to fix that but for other people I just say that you should try always have a same datat saved in chrome so you can still work. Also google works in microsoft edge so idk whats the problem. It might be on there side but idk.

Yeah I started saving the same data in chrome so I can access the links. Bing is broken or maybe a disconnect at times? I don't know, but at least we have found a work around, even though it's frustrating.