And it’s certainly needed at present the only way to access alternative search services is through omnibar and context menu searches. In adding this new landing page, the team will be hoping to better serve those Chrome users opting to use its search engine over others. Schechter’s team is tasked with making sure “every Bing search results page includes the most relevant, comprehensive, and trustworthy results possible”. The change, first noted by Dinsan Francis, comes via Mike Schechter, the Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft.
In a recent code commit to the browser, and already pushed to Canary and Chromium builds, a ‘ new tab page for Bing search engine‘ has been added and appears when the search engine is set as default.
The custom ‘New Tab Page’ for Bing in Chrome is in development by MicrosoftĪn improved Bing search experience is coming to Google Chrome - and it’s all thanks to Microsoft.