Bing still doesn't return searches as good as I can get from Google. I test them together every now and then. Google will returns better information and better sorted to find the stuff I need. Sorry Bing, you are just a minor bang.

Well then. Should you visit

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

using Internet Explorer, you'll see a stealthy effort to install the Google Toolbar and the checkbox is selected by default. You don't get the same offer in Firefox.

In short, it's not just Bing and Yahoo! up to this sort of monkey business. They're all the bloody same, Google included: to succeed they need users, and piggyback installs is one of the easiest ways of achieving that.

It'll only be inmpressive if the Bing toolbar is no longer distributed as paarasiteware. You know: the way it is often bundled with applications which do not need it to work and to which it has no relevance, yet with the install option selected by default.

Bloody Yahoo also employs this lowest life form tactic as well, making Bing and Yahoo toolbars malware by definition (Unwanted and unnecessary application which tries to get installed by default)