Bing Recommends Piracy Tutorial When Searching For Office 2019 (zdnet.com)

aafrn writes: Microsoft is sending users who search for Office 2019 download links via its Bing search engine to a website that teaches them the basics about pirating the company's Office suite. This happens every time users search for the term "office 2019 download" on Bing. The result is a Bing search card (highlighted search results) that links to a piracy tutorial that teaches users how to install uTorrent, download a torrent file, and install an Office crack file. Fortunately, the torrent download links are down, but experts believe the link was used to spread malware.

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download LibreOffice running under Linux instead

[najajomo]

I don't know why this deserves a whole slashdot article and you didn't even provide links to the alternatives!

LibreOffice is a powerful office suite

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Disingenuous

[Excelcia]

This isn't "Microsoft sending", this is Bing's algorithm categorizing that search result. This is not news. If I were to list all the "_________ download" searches that listed a torrent or instructions for how to find something for free as the first item, this would be a long post.

This is a non-story. Why am I even bothering to take the time t

Re:It's not obvious how you get Office

[dohzer]

At the end of your rope, you then ask a search engine to find it

You're only "at the end of your rope" once you've tried all the other search engines before being forced to use Bing.

Fortunately?

[hcs_$reboot]

Fortunately, the torrent download links are down

Slashdot has changed :-(