"web broswer download" on Bing gives chrome, opera, flock, safari and firefox.

Hmmm...

Actually, for me it gives: #1 http://www.linux.com/download_linux #2 http://www.hungrypenguin.net/downloads.html (which lists a lot of Linux variants). #3 http://www.linux.org/dist/download_info.html there are also direct links to Linux Mint, X Os Linux, Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux.

That's peculiar. Are the results skewed according to the geographical ___location of the searcher, you think? I'm in Singapore.

So what? The algorithm obviously heavily weights search terms in a URL. I doubt this is some sort of conspiracy.

Me neither, especially since after that I did searches for database servers and web servers and they served up links to Apache and MySQL rather than IIS and SQL Server, but I thought it was an interesting contrast nonetheless.

Makes sense. Ubuntu's currently the most popular distro and Google incorporates clickthrough into their recommendation metric IIRC . Even if Bing does too, it hasn't hadn't enough time for it to be a significant factor.