If I were Microsoft I’d be thinking of investing some of my deep pockets into guaranteeing, for some sites, the lost revenue from losing the search placements.

If I were Microsoft I’d be thinking of investing some of my deep pockets into guaranteeing, for some sites, the lost revenue from losing the search placements. If the news was saying “x many popular sites will no longer be available on anything but Bing”, that’s a lot more damaging to Google than the reverse is to Bing, because Google is the default for most people and it would shake confidence in them.