Attendees were a little surprised this morning at the BlackBerry World Keynote in Orlando, Florida, to see Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer take the stage. In Orlando during a blackberry event what he could be possibly be doing? Well, it turns out he was promoting Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, and Bing Maps. Future devices will be using Bing as its default search service in partnership with BlackBerry.
There are plenty of folks who love Bing and prefer it over Google, but there will undoubtedly be a number of BlackBerry users who might bemoan this change. Folks if you really want to switch, hopefully RIM may give you the option, but it seems doubtful – especially if this is anything like the move Verizon made in partnership with Microsoft when it dished out BlackBerry devices andsome Android models with Bing search only. The only way to get Google search was to use it within the phone’s browser, which isn’t an elegant or preferable solution or fix.
You’d better start learning to love Bing, too if you’re a die-hard BlackBerry user who absolutely loves Google or Yahoo! Search.
