Meh, lots of people would switch instantly to google if this happen. Waste of money for yahoo.
Lots more wouldn't even know the difference, or know how to change it back to Google.
Meh, lots of people would switch instantly to google if this happen. Waste of money for yahoo.
Dude, you are expressing a classic Snake Eating Itself argument. The reason why Google's search engine is so good is because of its data mining.
Yahoo, they just can't seem to get any traction. I'd rather see apple keep Google as the default.
Meh, lots of people would switch instantly to google if this happen. Waste of money for yahoo.
So, the default would essentially be Bing then?
Whatever. Until something offers better results than Google I'll continue to change it!
Well it certainly would be good for Yahoo, but how good would this be for Apple?
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 picking 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 a good majority of them stick with IE and that 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 the default I personally don't care who the default is.
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!![]()
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)
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)
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.
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)
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.