Check your Bing search consequences “click to look the whole answer”

Here’s a weird version of Microsoft Bing, it seems to have been tested by “click to see the full answer” in the search results section before showing you the answer. I mean, it seems very counterintuitive that a search engine requires an extra click, but hey – search engines try a lot of things.

This was noticed by David Iwanow Twitter who posted this screenshot for the query [0.7 gbp to eur]:

I’ve tried to replicate this in several browsers and even determined my location in the UK where I think David is based. I couldn’t do that again.

As you can see, it says “we’re learning how to make searching more useful to you.” Again, I don’t understand why this click would be useful, but hey …

Here’s what I see:

Forum discussion on Twitter.