Prevent Microsoft Edge from adding Visual Search to my website

Question

I have an eCommerce website and do not want Microsoft Edge to add a Visual Search button to my images. I think the Visual Search is unreasonable, adding external links to my website and allowing users to click away from my site. The only information on the web is Edge users turning off Visual Search, but nothing the website owner can do to turn off Visual Search. There should be a way to tag my website to prevent Edge from adding Visual Search. Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Answer 1

Hi Greg_Oz,

I'm Rodrigo and I will help you.

There isn't an option for the website owner to disable the visual search for Edge users, only for the users to disable it locally.

You can leave your suggestion to Microsoft on the Feedback Hub to add a string that allows the website owners to disable the Visual Search feature on their websites.On Edge can select the three dots on the top right corner > Help & Feedback > Send Feedback or open the Feedback Hub on the Start Menu or use the shortcut WinKey + F.

They care about this kind of feedback and there are other users requesting the same as you, let them know.

Answer 2

Thanks for your feedback Rodrigo,

Answer 3

I vote for the removal of this feature unless the end-user specifically turn it on. My clients don't appreciate Microsoft letting potential customers search for competitor products directly from our websites. The end-user does not even realize we are not the ones sending them there.

Answer 4

I agree, I've spent a lot of time stopping bots etc from scanning my site and mirroring the files, I've taken steps to stop console being opened etc to protect my stuff but then edge just has this option that completely bypasses my image protection which is ridiculous and there's nothing I can do about it.

Answer 5

The question is: is it legal for microsoft to invade our website and introduce a code that takes our clients to the competition without even consulting us? I understand that you want to provide an additional service to search engines, but invading our websites without our consent is abusive.