I hate to say it, but Microsoft has a _lot_ more experience in bare knuckle fighting than Google does. And, I'm betting that Microsoft is very interested in getting into a brawl over this one.
I really don't think that Google wants to get into a fight over who sucks up users click streams to advance their business...
Those who live in glass houses really flick boogers.
Point is, they have a script thingy that goes "when our user searches Google for some word and then clicks on a result, make that Bing's result for the same word (plus 999 other things)". I would say most of the intelligence there is being extracted from Google doing the search, not from the user choosing the result.
I'm not saying Bing should go to jail or anything. The rules of the search game are still being written. But let's give credit for search engineering where credit is due.
I really don't think that Google wants to get into a fight over who sucks up users click streams to advance their business...
Those who live in glass houses really flick boogers.