Bing only available search engine

[LordVagos]

Today I noticed in the default browser the only available search engine I have is Bing. No google. No wikipedia. No anything but Bing.

Does anyone know why this happened, or how I can get google & wikipedia back, and get rid of bing?

[hudss]

noticed it as well..
there is a free google search app from appworld made by rim. That or quicklaunch
Going to have to use it as an alternative for now

[LordVagos]

so is this probably Verizon making a deal with Microsoft? cause that would suck.

[theanswer3]

wow I just noticed that too. I remember that RIM signed a deal with Bing for search but that sucks quite frankly. I dont like bing for search.

[LordVagos]

Originally Posted by theanswer3

wow I just noticed that too. I remember that RIM signed a deal with Bing for search but that sucks quite frankly. I dont like bing for search.

nor do I, and I like to search directly from wikipedia frequently

[mpaquette]

I still have Google, Live Search, Wikipedia and Dictionary.com in my browser. I did noticed that Verizon pushed a Bing icon to my phone sometime on Sunday.

[LordVagos]

Originally Posted by mpaquette

I still have Google, Live Search, Wikipedia and Dictionary.com in my browser. I did noticed that Verizon pushed a Bing icon to my phone sometime on Sunday.

Hmm, maybe because your on BES? That could be. I've had the Bing Icon ever since launch though...

[5 point 1]

Originally Posted by mpaquette

I still have Google, Live Search, Wikipedia and Dictionary.com in my browser. I did noticed that Verizon pushed a Bing icon to my phone sometime on Sunday.

+1

I have all those options on my Browser... No bing... I don't even like Bing... As soon as Verizon pushed the Bing Icon, I hid it, lol...

[theanswer3]

Originally Posted by mpaquette

I still have Google, Live Search, Wikipedia and Dictionary.com in my browser. I did noticed that Verizon pushed a Bing icon to my phone sometime on Sunday.

Originally Posted by 5 point 1

+1

I have all those options on my Browser... No bing... I don't even like Bing... As soon as Verizon pushed the Bing Icon, I hid it, lol...

can you snap a pic showing all of those as an option with a screen capture app. I want to see it so I can try to find out why mine only has bing now and go back to having google but I dont want to waste my time and do you both have the os upgrade

[ehattey]

I am down to only BING...... Highly frustrating.... used the direct search to wikipedia quite a bit. (Helped me win trivia night)
I understand wanting to get the bing name out there, but dont take away the other options... thats just a giant middle finger to a bunch of us

[EnergyPlus]

This frustrates the heck out of me. On the phone with VZW right now. The rep is telling me that she can choose search options from her non-Storm phone, so she's off to get a Storm to find out what the deal is. Will post results. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..

[SevereDeceit]

I looked at my Buddy's Storm 1 yesterday and noticed the Bing icon...

[LordVagos]

Originally Posted by EnergyPlus

This frustrates the heck out of me. On the phone with VZW right now. The rep is telling me that she can choose search options from her non-Storm phone, so she's off to get a Storm to find out what the deal is. Will post results. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..

At least VZW is getting bitched at!

[theanswer3]

Originally Posted by EnergyPlus

This frustrates the heck out of me. On the phone with VZW right now. The rep is telling me that she can choose search options from her non-Storm phone, so she's off to get a Storm to find out what the deal is. Will post results. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..

yeah they wont have much info as this is a beta os and not official. also I dont think this is verizon doing this I read somewhere that RIM signed an exclusive deal with ms for bing as search engine on bbs

[EnergyPlus]

I got the Bing icon with my new Storm2 as well and I downloaded it for the simple reason that it had voice search (which sucks, really). But it was an OPTION, not the default search engine nor the ONLY search engine short of actually navigating to google.com!