Bing
Microsoft’s search layer—often a conduit into Copilot, Edge defaults, and Windows integration rather than neutral retrieval.
Extraction Stage 3
Surplus shifts toward business customers and shareholders; ads, fees, and degradation accelerate.
Bing competes where Google is weak (desktop OS defaults, enterprise bundles) and pushes AI answers and Microsoft accounts into the path. Results can be fine, but the product optimizes for ecosystem capture and ad/AI surfaces—not a clean “ten blue links” mission. Stage 3 extraction with a side of OS-level nudging.
