Yeah! That's a great idea! Then we can have another Google on our hands and be afraid of doing anything with it lest our entire lives be constantly under the microscope!
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Yahoo Wants to Be Apple’s Default iOS Search Engine
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Yeah! That's a great idea! Then we can have another Google on our hands and be afraid of doing anything with it lest our entire lives be constantly under the microscope!
Because anyone can still easily change what their default search engine is, even today? Yeah...
This is hilarious. We have people bragging that they won't hire anyone who has an Android phone and that they'd rather die than have a gmail account, and Android = "cheap" and Google is the epitome of evil, but the actual thought of being without Google on iOS? "No! Please! Never!!!"
I do not like yahoo at all. The only thing I use it for is reading the news sometimes I don't even have an account for yahoo. That thing at the bottom of the notification center bothers me becuase I want nothing to do with yahoo or see yahoo. I would not mind a google logo down there though. I really like google and use it all the time and would not switch search engines for anything. Please no yahoo.
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It's time to let go of the paranoia.
The calendar tells us it's 2014, data collection is a part of life. Apple is collecting just like everyone else.
If not for Google and all their creativity, things would be far less advanced. They've done a lot for all of us.
Yeah, 'make your own' worked great for Maps.
Apple does NOT have a good track record with web services.
Ah. Reading comprehension problem, apparently. Yeah I use that one as well. I also use a VPN on my phone.
I like Yahoo a lot more than Google. Yahoo has been my e-mail provider ever since I started browsing the web. I still use them for that. Ive also used several search engines and found Bing and Yahoo Search to be quite capable.
These negotiations are simply about the system default. You can continue to use Google.
So it's not that there's a logo that bothers you, but which logo it is? How is that meaningful really?
As for using Google, you can still select to use it no matter what search engine is set as default.
Make it happen Tim and Marissa! I've been waiting for Yahoo to be the default for all pertinent services on iOS and OS X for a long time.
And no this is not a sarcastic post. Google and MS both have their own platforms powered by their own hardware and services. Apple and Yahoo aligning together makes perfect business sense to me in order to compete with the other big two.
And people just love to freak about news like this too. No one is deciding to take away your options. Just emphasizing one over the other as default. If you don't like it, just set it in settings. Done.
I also agree with the posts that say Apple should just buy Yahoo.
And no this is not a sarcastic post. Google and MS both have their own platforms powered by their own hardware and services. Apple and Yahoo aligning together makes perfect business sense to me in order to compete with the other big two.
And people just love to freak about news like this too. No one is deciding to take away your options. Just emphasizing one over the other as default. If you don't like it, just set it in settings. Done.
I also agree with the posts that say Apple should just buy Yahoo.
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I have tried all three, Google, Yahoo, and Bing in the last 5 years. Bing has pulled to neck n neck w Google on 99% of my search, with Yahoo still behind, though not by any degree of irrelevance. Keep at it Yahoo. You might have a future marrying into Apple ecosystem.
I think buying Yahoo would be a big waste of money for Apple. Apple is too smart to purchase a company that is years past its prime.
I am hoping that Yahoo! can revive itself and provide a good search engine for Apple to use.
Google and Microsoft are the big players in search right now, so I think it's time a third company shakes things up. Imagine what the US mobile phone market would be like if Verizon and AT&T were the only relevant service providers.
Google and Microsoft are the big players in search right now, so I think it's time a third company shakes things up. Imagine what the US mobile phone market would be like if Verizon and AT&T were the only relevant service providers.
I know but I don't want apple to be talking I yahoo cuz one day they might do something more.
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I know that I can still use google I just don't want apple to talk to yahoo cuz I do not want this to ever become something more.