I've been stuck behind the Chinese firewall for a while now and while I do proxy for searches that clearly need it, I surf most of my web unproxied. For whatever reason, the firewall seems to arbitrarily and frequently block many of my (non-risque and non-politically-sensitive) Google queries. The end result is that I've been using a whole lot of Bing. Aside from my habit of using Google as my default search tool, I don't see much reason in terms of performance for me to stick with them. As it is, I will likely be switching my default search engine to Bing once I figure out how to do it in Chrome.
Type "bing.com" in the address bar, hit Tab instead of Enter and search for anything.
Open Options from the tool menu. On the Basic tab, locate "Default search" and click the Manage button. In the list of "Other search engines", select bing.com and click Make Default.
