https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjpn9q/australia-faces-prospect-of-becoming-bing-nation-as-google-plans-exit

With Google threatening to pull its search engine entirely from Australia following legislation that would force the tech giant to pay for news, Microsoft has reportedly told Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison that it is ready to take up the mantle with its own search engine, Bing. 

With a mere 3.5 percent domestic market share according to analytics tracker statcounter, up until now Bing has held a very distant second place to Google’s whooping 95 percent share. If Google does decide to take its search engine off the market, it provides a rare opportunity not only for Bing, but also other search engines such as the privacy-centric DuckDuckGo.