Bing Adjusts search experience recruit some users to resist termination test

Users send Twitter messages to show distaste for an adjustment to the Bing search experience (Tencent technology map)

Microsoft Bing is currently tweaking the Bing search experience. But from Twitter feedback from users, the adjustment is confusing for most Bing users and has not been supported.

Over the past few days, Microsoft has been testing a new way to display Bing search results. The test user will see the bing.com search results (as in the Chrome browser) in the newly opened tab, or see the search results in a new window (as in the Safari browser). But the test is confusing to Microsoft users. Negative comments from users also seem to affect the Bing team. "We have received feedback from users," a spokesman for Microsoft said in a statement in Wednesday. We have now terminated the new feature test. ”

A Microsoft spokeswoman said the change was only a test and was limited to the US market. But users of the Bing search engine say the test is not limited to the U.S. market, but is also being done in many other countries.

"We are currently testing a new homepage experience in the U.S. market," a spokesman for Microsoft said. The Bing Search Engine home page is used millions of times a day, so before we can fully identify any feature, these features must undergo rigorous testing and experimentation to ensure that users get the best possible search experience. At present, we have no more information to share. ”

Microsoft regularly tests the Bing user experience. Sometimes the tests don't turn out to be the final change, and sometimes they are incorporated into the new version of the Microsoft Search interface. The latest tests present a polarised phenomenon. Some users explicitly dislike this experience, but there are also users who prefer to keep search requests and display search results on new pages. There are also a handful of users who send Twitter messages saying they don't mind the change of the Bing user experience, but want this adjustment to be the option, not the default.