The Register has a story on how Verizon unilaterally decided to snuff out all search engines with the exception of Bing as the default one.
Verizon has unilaterally updated user Storm 2 BlackBerries and other smartphones so that their browser search boxes can only be used with Microsoft Bing.
The move is part of the five-year search and advertising deal Verizon signed with Microsoft in January for a rumored $500m.
Wow. I guess Microsoft really doesn’t want to give up on its search engine wars.
Verizon says that they’re a “proud supporter” of the Bing search engine. I’m sure they are: with $500 million in my pocket, I’d be, too. This doesn’t mean other search engines, like Google, are not available. It means they can’t be made the default one, though.
(Actually, there are reports that some users can’t access any other search engines…but it could just be people who just don’t know how to use some other search engine…you know what I mean?)
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