APRIL 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 49Microsoft makes
it quite difficult to
figure out how to use
any search engine
besides Bingto Google or DuckDuckGo, you can go to the Settings
menu and click through menu after menu. Seriously,
if the option to change the search engine is there, it’s
nearly impossible to find without a targeted search.
Only after I typed ‘search’ into the Settings search
box could I find the option to change the search
engine – and only by clicking though a related link. (I
later found it under the Privacy and Services tab, at the
very bottom.) I couldn’t help but think that if this were
15 or 20 years ago, when Microsoft’s Internet Explorer
reigned, the company might be receiving a pointed
letter from the DOJ right about now.
Using the new Edge
In practice, the new Edge looks... fine? With other
browsers, such as Firefox, the page layout is visually
distinctive, with sidebars and other ways of rearranging
the content that identify that browser.