[rajeevk]

Can you imagine what will happen to Mozilla if Google stops the contract? IMO, it is just a strategy of Google. First make the Mozilla heavily dependent on it and later ditch so the Firefox can easily die

[darkmighty]

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.

[cpeterso]

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.

[Tomte]

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.