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Comments on: Verizon, Microsoft in mobile-search deal

Software maker will see its search engine take center stage on all Verizon Wireless phones over the next five years.

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by Larabee90 January 7, 2009 10:17 AM PST
Great for the company that neuters handsets and could care less about users. Now none of their users will be able to find anything when they search, but MS money will roll in!
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by orphu January 7, 2009 11:08 AM PST
Apparently you've never used any of MS's search products on a handheld. They work surprisingly well.
by JCPayne January 7, 2009 12:25 PM PST
Here-here... Verizon has always been too restrictive for me. But, of curiosity do they have any devices these days that allow you to tether (without having to pay for an expensive service plan and separate software package to do so?)
by Vegaman_Dan January 7, 2009 11:56 AM PST
Unless this is on a smartphone or something with some screen real estate, then search on a mobile phone is like looking through a soda straw to watch a football game. You just can't see enough of it to really make it usable.
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by gmclean0402 January 7, 2009 1:28 PM PST
iPhone and Google. Or G1 and T-Mobile.. MS and Verizon?? Really? Is this the dry and boring leading the crippled and ugly? *sigh*

@Vegaman_Dan: Fantastic analogy.
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by eltoro2827 January 7, 2009 6:03 PM PST
Yay.....no more google as a default search engine. good move verizon.
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by t8 January 8, 2009 2:08 AM PST
If there is a browser on the phone, why can't you change the home page and search to google.com?
I am not from the US and never had a verizon phone, so scuse the ignorance.
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