Comments on: Verizon Pushing Microsoft Bing on BlackBerry Homepage

By: DavidB

DavidB — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:54:46 +0000

I have my BB Browser home page set to Google Mobile. I have my default browser search set to Live (which does a Bing now). So with ease I can access either.
I do wish RIM would give us more choices for default search provider. I would like to be able to use Yahoo, mainly to counter the Google collective (all your data are belong to us), but yahoo doesn’t seem to get that a mobile home page should be “plain”.

By: Nic

Nic — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:03:51 +0000

I still use Google for my searches. I just dont like the name “Bing”.

By: MH

MH — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:53:13 +0000

I use the blackberry browser and search google from the start page.

I get exteremely annoyed when Verizon tries to push software or content to users. All I want from Verizon is bandwidth (and more and more of it) to access the internet. A quick look at Verizon’s disfunctional website will clearly indicate that they should stay away from the software or content business.

By: Bram

Bram — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:58:36 +0000

I’m using the google mobile app. Works great and no problems on my Bold.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:24:31 +0000

Bing is now my search engine of choice. Its better than Google (right now). Google will catch up and surpass inevitably, but now is now.

Also, Bing formats all Wikipedia pages to fit the BB perfectly. This is a big annoyance for me currently through Google. I mean how hard is it to drop some reformat code in your results?

By: scuebydue

scuebydue — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:16:56 +0000

I usually use the google version in the web browser. But on my Pearl 8130, google usually doesn’t allow me to click on the first 3 results. I have to select, copy, paste into the link bar. Frustrating!