Microsoft today said it had fixed a bug in Bing that had infuriated Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) users when they discovered that the company’s new search engine had hijacked their browsers.
“Last night, we corrected the issue with Bing on machines running IE6,” a Microsoft spokeswoman said Wednesday in an brief e-mailed reply to questions.
Starting Monday, when Microsoft took Bing live, IE6 users began complaining that although they had previously set other search engines as the default, searches typed into the browser were instead directed to Bing.
“Woke up this morning to discover that Bing had hijacked [my IE6 address bar search],” said a user identified as “clmerc” on a Google help message forum. [I] can’t change it via search/customize on the IE tool bar.”
