Sure. As Harry Shum said; this is a new kind of clickfraud. Just like when googlebombing become a public technique, Google would have been foolish not to change

Sure. As Harry Shum said; this is a new kind of clickfraud. Just like when googlebombing become a public technique, Google would have been foolish not to change the behaviour of their algorithm. I'd be amazed if Bing didn't swiftly change their click tracking behaviour to explicitly blacklist google. And if Google had waited for Bing to reply privately before making any of this public, I'm sure we'd have avoided all this drama.