Verizon Ditches Google And Sets Bing As Default Search Engine On Its BlackBerry Devices

on 12/18/2009 10:33 PDT

Has Microsoft managed to one up Google with regards to BlackBerry devices on Verizon Wireless? It seems that Verizon Wireless has changed the default search engine on their BlackBerry products to Microsoft’s Bing search engine, ditching the precious choices such as Google or Wikipedia. You can still go to Google’s site and set it as a bookmark etc, but we’re sure that many folks will be disappointed to have the choice taken away from them. What do you think about this? Are you OK with Bing being your default search engine, or would you prefer to be allowed to keep Google or Wikipedia?

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Google Google is an Internet Search company with profits mainly derived from its AdWords advertising program. Google is also known for other high-profile web-related products such as Chrome, GMail, Google Docs or Google Map, and it has also made a very successful entry into the mobile handset market with its Android mobile operating system. The company was created in 1998 and went public in 2004. Google is one of the most visited site in the world.

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