![]() One part of Microsoft promoting piracy sites while another division spends time fighting those very same sites. ![]() The fifth result is the pirate site that started all the fuss. The top search result isn’t a Microsoft site. No sign of the pirate site though there’s another questionable site on page 2.ĭown in Australia there are four ads (one isn’t even related to MS Office!). In the UK, there are two ads then a Microsoft site link. The search results started with two Microsoft site links followed by the pirate site. In the USA there are four ads, one from Microsoft itself. What you see depends, in part, on your location. Naturally, Office Watch had to try this for ourselves. It’s a curious display of algorithmic and corporate independence,Īll you had to do is search for ‘Office 2019 download’ on Bing to see information that Microsoft definitely does not approve of.įirst reported by Catalin Cimpanu at ZDnet, not only did the pirate site get top billing, Bing excerpted key text and an image. Microsoft’s own Bing search engine was giving prominent place to a link which explains how to pirate Office 2019.
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