Microsoft has announced that bing will be utilizing Wolfram|Alpha.

http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/archive/2009/11/11/how-many-calories-in-a-burger-what-s-2-2-2-2-2-bing-and-wolfram-alpha-have-the-answers.aspx
http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/325937

Elsewhere it has been discussed that Google is now using data from World Bank.
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-11-12-n20.html

Was one of these actions a response to the other?