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Fly4Fun

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Mar 24, 2014 1:03 PM
So today when I went to go google something, I noticed the Bing somehow had a hostile takeover of my google chrome. Now when I search in the address bar it does a Bing search instead of Google.

I made sure Bing wasn't installed on my computer.

Fuck you Bing.

Any help to get rid of this (already made sure anything with "Bing" was uninstalled)?
Mar 24, 2014 1:03pm
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pmoney25

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Mar 24, 2014 1:05 PM
Just google the answer
Mar 24, 2014 1:05pm
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Rotinaj

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Mar 24, 2014 1:11 PM
Sounds like a virus. Take it to the Geek Squad asap. They are an amazing group of people who wouldn't even imagine price gouging the shit out of you.
Mar 24, 2014 1:11pm
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Devils Advocate

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Mar 24, 2014 1:22 PM
Mar 24, 2014 1:22pm
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wildcats20

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Mar 24, 2014 1:22 PM
Go to your chrome options and make google your default search engine
Mar 24, 2014 1:22pm
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MontyBrunswick

Mar 24, 2014 1:28 PM
On the topic, I've given bing a chance a few times and always come back to Google.

I have noticed that Google's results have changed (for the worse) the past year or two. It seems to handle random word searches differently, which is really unhelpful when looking up PC error messages. I have to wrap everything in quotes when I didn't used to have to do that
Mar 24, 2014 1:28pm
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gorocks99

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Mar 24, 2014 1:30 PM
Bing is good for video searches. That's about it.
Mar 24, 2014 1:30pm
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MontyBrunswick

Mar 24, 2014 1:31 PM
gorocks99;1596024 wrote:Bing is good for video searches. That's about it.
True. Expert tip: it searches porn, too.
Mar 24, 2014 1:31pm
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I Wear Pants

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Mar 24, 2014 1:45 PM
I like Bing, it's usually the same results and the video search is much better especially for porn. Sometimes if I'm trying to find something specific it's easier with Google so I use that but generally I stick to Bing since they give me Amazon gift cards.
Mar 24, 2014 1:45pm
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Mar 24, 2014 2:48 PM
I Wear Pants;1596026 wrote:I like Bing, it's usually the same results and the video search is much better especially for porn. Sometimes if I'm trying to find something specific it's easier with Google so I use that but generally I stick to Bing since they give me Amazon gift cards.
gAY.
Mar 24, 2014 2:48pm
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Tiernan

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Mar 24, 2014 3:42 PM
I love Bing...his road movies with Hope still hold up after 60 yrs.
Mar 24, 2014 3:42pm
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DeyDurkie5

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Mar 24, 2014 7:25 PM
Tiernan;1596070 wrote:I love Bing...his road movies with Hope still hold up after 60 yrs.
Omg great humor
Mar 24, 2014 7:25pm
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like_that

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Mar 24, 2014 7:42 PM
Hopefully its a virus.
Mar 24, 2014 7:42pm
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gut

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Mar 24, 2014 8:20 PM
If you're not careful installing various free software (such as CCleaner and others), they like to try to sneak Bing by you. The other big one is some sort of search or shopping bar (usually gets flagged on my spyware if I miss it).

On a related note, the latest Chrome update kind of sucks.
Mar 24, 2014 8:20pm
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ernest_t_bass

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Mar 24, 2014 9:11 PM
Herpes
Mar 24, 2014 9:11pm
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Pick6

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Mar 24, 2014 9:25 PM
I use Firefox and Google search.

Hope this helps.
Mar 24, 2014 9:25pm
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Tiernan

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Mar 24, 2014 9:32 PM
DeyDurkie5;1596123 wrote:Omg great humor
I know...cracked myself up with that one.
Mar 24, 2014 9:32pm
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bases_loaded

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Mar 24, 2014 9:53 PM
Netscape and webcrawler ftw
Mar 24, 2014 9:53pm
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Fly4Fun

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Mar 24, 2014 10:02 PM
gut;1596138 wrote:If you're not careful installing various free software (such as CCleaner and others), they like to try to sneak Bing by you. The other big one is some sort of search or shopping bar (usually gets flagged on my spyware if I miss it).

On a related note, the latest Chrome update kind of sucks.
I eventually got rid of it, not sure what did it exactly.

On a related note I hate that every time I update Java they try to sneak McAfee on me.
Mar 24, 2014 10:02pm
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Wally

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Mar 25, 2014 5:52 AM
Bing or Yahoo=better than Google. Besides Google is for liberal geeks.
Mar 25, 2014 5:52am
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WebFire

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Mar 25, 2014 8:30 AM
Wally;1596204 wrote:Bing or Yahoo=better than Google. Besides Google is for liberal geeks.
False.
Mar 25, 2014 8:30am
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I Wear Pants

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Mar 25, 2014 1:33 PM
Wally;1596204 wrote:Bing or Yahoo=better than Google. Besides Google is for liberal geeks.
Lol wut?
Mar 25, 2014 1:33pm
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thavoice

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Mar 25, 2014 1:38 PM
I am not an liberal, nor a geek, and I use google.
Mar 25, 2014 1:38pm
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Mar 25, 2014 1:44 PM
I Wear Pants;1596332 wrote:Lol wut?
Apparently someone either is using a certain degree of subtle wit or someone happened to look up Google during some day where they had a left-leaning logo for that day and the sight of it turned him into a Belly/QQuaker-level politard.
Mar 25, 2014 1:44pm