Verizon snuffs Google for Microsoft search Dec 22, 2009, 16 :32 UTC (9 Talkback[s]) (5375 reads) (Other stories by Cade Metz)
"Verizon has unilaterally updated user Storm 2 BlackBerries and other smartphones so that their browser search boxes can only be used with Microsoft Bing.
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"he move is part of the five-year search and advertising deal Verizon signed with Microsoft in January for a rumored $500m.
"Verizon pushed the search change over its network two days ago, the company has confirmed with The Reg. "We're a proud supporter of Microsoft's Bing search engine," a company spokesman tells us. "On a couple of select smartphones (Storm 2 the most prominent), we've changed the [Verizon Wireless]-supplied web menu to make Bing the default search engine."
