Android on AT&T: Now with 100% more Yahoo
Android on AT&T: Now with 100% more Yahoo
Posted 03/02/2010 at 2:17pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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In January, there were murmurs of Bing replacing Google as the default search provider on the Apple iPhone. The Gregorian calender has moved to March at its traditional pace and nothing has happened on that front. But Google Search is now on the verge of getting snubbed on its own turf: Android. If you are unaware, Android is coming to AT&T in the form of the Motorola Blackflip, which is scheduled to hit stores on March 7, 2010. But Google will be a little less excited about the launch now, for the carrier is said to have removed Google as the default search provider “throughout” the phone and opted for Yahoo instead.
“Yahoo has replaced Google as the default search provider throughout the phone. It's crazy: the home screen widget, the browser, everything's been programmed to use Yahoo. We love us some irony, but golly, we'd prefer Google searches most of the time,” Engadget's Chris Ziegler wrote on the blog after unboxing the phone.
It is no secret that Google is the world's most popular search provider by a long distance. It is difficult to imagine why smartphone users may want to use Yahoo or any other search engine over Google. However, in case there is even an iota of doubt over Google's popularity among smartphone users, it is best to leave the choice to the users themselves. Search engine ballot, anyone?
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QuakindudeMod
March 03, 2010 at 9:30am
Actually, and even knowing it's just a little bit more work to open a Google search, this would be a deal breaker for me.
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Biceps
March 02, 2010 at 3:02pm
WHY? Seriously...why?? I can only guess that Yahoo! paid AT&T a fat chunk of change for the benefit of being the default search provider on the phone. I never use Yahoo!, because the results s*ck compared to Google, and Yahoo! likes to give peoples' personal information to the Chinese government. Yah who?
Caboose
March 02, 2010 at 3:22pm
That does sound like the only logical reason as to why Google was dropped from their own platform. How soon do you think it'll be before there's a quick and easy way to switch these phones back to 100% google?Or, there's enough public outcry that AT&T switches the phones back to Google?
Luke Wilson annoys me now... I wonder when Verizon is going to fire back with something good...
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
jlh304
March 03, 2010 at 7:10am
Well since Andriod is Google's OS they can just do an OS update (you know like apple does to fix things they don't like) and make Google the default search again, removing yahoo.
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