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Bing default search engine for iPhone


Microsoft and Apple seem to be in negotiations to make Bing default search engine on the iPhone, we learn from MacRumors, citing BusinessWeek. Sources indicate that negotiations are already bears a few weeks and appears to have been initiated against the background of growing disagreements between Apple and Google.

“I know that Apple and Google are the primary enemy,” said one anonymous source of BusinessWeek, which estimated that “Microsoft is now a pawn in this battle. If negotiations will conclude successfully, it is possible that Bing to replace Google as default search engine and desktop version of Apple’s Safari browser.

A recent Google mobile market and acquire a mobile advertising company to Apple has brought the two giants in a conflict situation. There are even rumors that Apple would try to distance itself from Google Maps technology used by iPhone.

But even if Apple and Microsoft reach an agreement, BusinessWeek comments that this could be only a temporary measure for Apple, which seems to be working on its own search technology.


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