Lots more wouldn't even know the difference, or know how to change it back to Google.
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Lots more wouldn't even know the difference, or know how to change it back to Google.
I'm amazed at how often I see...
I'm amazed at how often I see Yahoo as peoples homepage. It does give good news articles and is very customizable. Maybe not for us geeks but you know, normal folk
I'm amazed at how often I see Yahoo as peoples homepage. It does give good news articles and is very customizable. Maybe not for us geeks but you know, normal folk
Not always.
I sometimes find that if I use another browser and a VPN, I get a more interesting array of search results.
I hope most people know that Google customizes the search results heavily based on your past search and click history.
Sometimes this works great, other times not at all.
I don't think it matters to the tech savy like MacRumors regulars. We would probably switch back instantly.
But there are many that would either not even notice or wouldn't care. Those users would be easy pickings for Yahoo. My parents for example - they aren't searching for anything crazy (I hope, ha!). They find high street shops, and things like "ebay playstation" for example. I don't think there would be a massive difference to basic users - and I imagine these users outweigh those that require the "better" Google results by a fair margin.
Looking around my my workplace, if I visit people in Project Management (as an example) a good majority of them stick with IE and Bing. They'd don't care or want to change (no Chrome or Firefox). As it's the default that's what they use.
As long as there is a way to change I personally don't care who the default is.
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And I would welcome the opportunity to change the default search engine as soon as that happened.
Yep.
Bing > Yahoo!.
It would be a bad idea for Apple to tarnish its own brand by partnering with a 2000s era web company that is no longer relevant in the 2010s.
Microsoft, on the other hand... despite being traditionally enemies, they have, due to their circumstances, banded together ('the enemy of my enemy is my friend') with Apple. Note the lack of antagonism (Ignore the Surface ads. They're just good nature fun.) between MS and Apple, which is leading to a productive relationship (Office on iOS, imminent Office on OS X 10.11, ...).
Unrelated to this, but I have a feeling that Office 2015 might be coded using Swift.
It's called Bing.. and it has for some time now in images, maps, and search. Try it some time.
Apple will go with whoever makes the better deal. Considering how much the Firefox switch to Yahoo has hurt Google (given that they're aggressively advertising how to switch on their homepage), Google better get cracking.
Not a big fan of the yahoo engine, but I also haven't used it in years so I can't speak to current searches.
You must work with an awful lot of brain dead people or alternatively people who hanker for the tech of 20th Century! Yahoo has to be the worst company for customer service I have ever encountered, they deliberately do not have a telephone number for customer support. Adobe does the same thing and their non existent customer service is probably worse, at least Yahoo don't charge for using their software!
You must work with an awful lot of brain dead people or alternatively people who hanker for the tech of 20th Century! Yahoo has to be the worst company for customer service I have ever encountered, they deliberately do not have a telephone number for customer support. Adobe does the same thing and their non existent customer service is probably worse, at least Yahoo don't charge for using their software!
Ummmm. Neither does Google.
In fact Google is probably the worst, in terms of customer support.
More or less, but without Bing Rewards, which is the best part of Bing.
(I'm serious, I get a $5 Amazon certificate almost monthly with it)
you can get to $5 in a month? interesting...I need to take a look at this.
I can't take Yahoo seriously for several reasons, one being Yahoo answers. I get some of the worst results when in looking for an answer to a question. When looking for factual information, I'm often left with opinions and sometimes downright wrong information. I'm really surprised Yahoo still has earnings to report. But hey, if AOL and MySpace can survive...
It won't happen. Steve Jobs was a thermonuclear kind of guy. Tim Cook is a smooth operator, and he won't jeopardize customer satisfaction that way.
Basically. New tab all the news items on the bing front page every day -> collect Amazon certificate. Rinse. Repeat.More or less, but without Bing Rewards, which is the best part of Bing.
(I'm serious, I get a $5 Amazon certificate almost monthly with it)
Use Google for searches where you want good results. Bing is better for video searches, I'll give them that.
All comes down to if you want to shop at a warehouse store with faceless staff (VPN) or a neighborhood boutique that knows your tastes, the staff calls you out by name and has some items ready to try on before you even ask (search history.)
IMO, being paranoid about Google using your search history against your is like the being scared of a Boutique staff selling you out to the local Secret Police.
More or less, but without Bing Rewards, which is the best part of Bing.
(I'm serious, I get a $5 Amazon certificate almost monthly with it)
Me as well. I get a Starbucks card though. Microsoft has a Bing challenge where you can search the Internet blind using both bing and Google to see what you prefer.
Yup. And Tim was at many times to the calming factor keeping Steve's explosions from getting too out of control while still managing to keep his job.
In a way, Tim is a widow keeping the passion going with the drama fading. Keep thinking if there is another explosive exec on the way to the top at Apple after Tim's time ends.