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> Microsoft has no shame

entirely clickbait, ambiguous, over the top, all fluff

> Bing spit on my ‘Chrome’ search

comically, suspiciously aggressive

> with a fake AI answer

ah, the purpose of the article

A non-clickbait, but not very punchy alternative is:

"Microsoft's Bing Presents Pre-scripted Response as AI Chatbot in 'Chrome' Search Query"




> comically, suspiciously aggressive

All of those words are necessary except 'spit'! Come on!

And if you got rid of 'spit' you'd need a different verb.

You could remove "Microsoft has no shame", but I don't think that changes whether the article title in total is clickbait or not. Clickbait would be "Microsoft has no shame" all by itself.


I think your definition of clickbait is too narrow. For me, it includes the headline trying to gin up a controversy. But I don't really want to argue about it.


Clickbait would be something that's misleading. Hence the "bait" (and switch) allusion. Not everything has to sound like a reuters byline.




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