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[...] on Android-powered devices.”That, apparently, is utterly true. ATT (NYSE: T) has formerly replaced Android’s Google hunt with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), and Verizon has replaced Google hunt with Bing on [...]

Default search provider settings are commercial deals with money exchanged. In the search business, these are called “distribution deals”.

Why does firefox default to google? Google pays Mozilla a ton of cash for the privilege.

Why the recent talk of Bing becoming the default on the iPhone? Microsoft probably offered cash.

Yahoo and AT&T have a long standing cross-promotion deal. This is probably part of that, and probably AT&T probably got a better deal from Yahoo! somehow vs. Google.

Hopefully it is configurable. Google is also the same in terms of inflexibility for their phones – I have a Verizon Droid, and there is no way I can change my default search provider. So much for openness. The iPhone at least lets you change it to Yahoo! if you are something other than one of the mindless drooling google boosters.

[...] because the carrier normally decides which software ships on their phones. AT&T already removed Google search in favor of Yahoo, but all the other major U.S. carriers have stuck with Google services for their Android [...]

Didn’t Verizon update their Blackberries so that they only use Bing and can’t be switched back to Google?
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/verizon-forcing-microsoft-bing-search-blackberry-users-100

If the world class technicians (NOT) at AT&T can hack Google search out of the Android OS , I am convinced that any Tom, Dick or Harry can hack it back in.
Phone Freek, I to, would like to defecate on their sternums.

I’m a WinMo user, personally, but… I still think this is the absolute dumbest thing AT&T could possibly do. It makes me want to get a T-Mobile Android phone out of spite.

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[...] Android phone, the Motorola Backflip, was under-powered and locked down. We already knew about the lack of Google search and today another limitation has [...]