Microsoft will stop allowing third-party hacks that let Windows 10 users search Google using Cortana, according to a blog post from the tech company. Now, all searches through Cortana will be forced to go through Bing, Microsoft’s search engine competitor to Google.
Bing, colloquially known as the best porn search engine on the internet, was launched in 2009 as a replacement for Live Search, which in turn was a replacement for MSN Search (the one with the butterflies). Eventually Yahoo! decided to use Bing as a replacement for their own search engine, and Bing became Google’s main competitor.
Cortana will now also pipe all requests through the new version of Internet Explorer, the Microsoft Edge Browser. This is because Microsoft is trying to maintain a “personalized, end-to-end search experience,” as they put it on their blog, additionally referencing something about pizza and only-for-Windows-10-users Bluetooth problems.
Of course, to even use Cortana in the first place, Windows 10 users had to allow Microsoft the ability to “access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to protect our customers or enforce the terms governing the use of the services," according to Microsoft’s privacy policy.
