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0 pointsdarkmighty11y ago0 comments

Firefox would probably take some pay cut and switch to bing. I bet Google is quite happy as is: the search engine is 80% of their commercial needs with a browser, so they're just outsourcing another IE competitor. Also, I bet they don't view this so ruthlessly -- else they wouldn't be as committed elsewhere with OSS projects and the releasing the Chromium version of their browser.

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cpeterso11y ago· 1 in thread

If Firefox switched its default search engine from Google to Bing, I wonder how many Firefox users would even notice? Power users would complain for a day, then just switch their search settings back to Google. But I think switching to Bing (or Yahoo) would restore some healthy competition to the web.

Tomte11y ago

I've been using Bing (and IE) for a few months now, after years of Google and Firefox.

I'd guess about half of my searches go like this:

* type into URL bar * get Bing result * after a quick glance: decide that result is useless * copy/paste into Google

I'd love to use Bing almost exclusively (especially since I'm really happy with my Lumia 630), but it is really frustrating sometimes.

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