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____/ Mark Kent on Friday 01 Jan 2010 15:20 : \____
>> Microsoft's Bing on Verizon: Crapware for mobile phones
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>>| The icon for Microsoft's Bing search
>>| engine has been showing up, unrequested,
>>| on the home screens of BlackBerry users on
>>| Verizon's network in recent days. In an
>>| era when people carefully decide what and
>>| what not to put on their phones, the move
>>| is angering many Verizon customers --
>>| particularly savvier users who treat as
>>| sacrosanct the contents and arrangement of
>>| their mobile home screens.
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>> http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/12/verizon_blackberry_users_see_bing_as_uninvited_home_screen_guest.html
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> It would seem that the only way Microsoft can get customers is by
> manipulating them. Most people don't like that very much!
They did the same in IE6, redirecting lost queries to Bong [sic]. Not surprisingly,
the most searched-for term in Bong is "google" (true story!).
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