Bing (bing.com) is a search engine. Bing was founded by Microsoft.
DESCRIPTION
The homepage of bing.com had a grand background image with a search box in front of it. The search box above the fold returned Bing search results. It showed the weather of my local town in the top right corner along with an icon to show that I was signed in to my Microsoft account. Beneath the search box were numerous links to news articles taken from today’s news headlines. As I scrolled the page, there were more top stories and some news articles that seemed related to me. There was local news to me as well as international news. The news articles continued in seemingly an infinite scroll as I continued scrolling down the page. 4/16/2024
ALTERNATIVES
Similar sites to bing.com include google.com, microsoft.com, ask.com, dogpile.com, lycos.com, duckduckgo.com, wolframalpha.com, facebook.com, gigablast.com, and altavista.com.
HISTORY
As of November 2023, bing.com has 1.3 billion monthly views, according to Similar Web. The Wayback Machine estimates bing.com was founded on January 18, 2002. The Internet Archive has saved bing.com 460,445 times between January 18, 2002 and January 2, 2024.
Is bing.com Safe?
Here, I analyzed bing.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam:
I checked bing.com on Sucuri, and it returned as a critical security risk. Results: Sucuri scan for bing.com.
Sucuri says bing.com is a critical security risk because it is blacklisted by PhishTank.
I then ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on bing.com, and it is clean. Results: Unmask Parasites scan for bing.com.
I also checked bing.com on VirusTotal, and it is clean. Results: VirusTotal scan for bing.com.
URLVoid says bing.com passed all blocklist engines. Results: URLVoid scan for bing.com.
In conclusion, Sucuri says bing.com is a critical security risk because it is blacklisted by PhishTank. Unmask Parasites says bing.com is clean of parasites. VirusTotal and Sucuri say bing.com isn’t malicious or blacklisted. OVERALL GRADE: Relatively Safe.
Links and Profiles
Website: bing.com