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By: daniel wilson

daniel wilson — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:34:35 +0000

Look guys, it still doesnt really matter…you can still go to Google.com on your berry browser like I do right now…it still loads up fast….great thing about this market is that we still have a choice…

By: dualsub2006

dualsub2006 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:19:06 +0000

This Live thing isn’t going to work out perfectly for MS or RIM. Verizon has search deals with Yahoo right at the moment and they are in talks with Google. Sprint uses MS, but I doubt they pass on their own revenue deal to allow RIM to get paid. AT&T uses Yahoo except for the iPhone, which uses Google by default.

That to me says that this application will be easily removable by the user, but may be removed by the carrier. I’m not too sure how this really benefits MS or RIM. I don’t think one carrier that has their own search deal will let this one pass through.

By: dualsub2006

dualsub2006 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:14:14 +0000

BB does have a delete option. You can remove anything that you like from it, and if they change that option for the Live thing I will stick with the BB that I have until my contract is up and then move to iPhone.

By: dualsub2006

dualsub2006 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:10:42 +0000

Google has their own application for BlackBerry. It uses the BB browser, but ties together all Google services like Live does with their app. The Google App is faster, and frankly, I just don’t want MS stuff on my BB. I passed on WinMo for a reason.

http://www.goog...blackberry/app/

By: rhmayo

rhmayo — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:52:13 +0000

hopefully BB has a delete application option

By: Paolo

Paolo — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:03:30 +0000

Is this going to hurt RIM? Statistics say that people usually search with Google. If you can’t search with Google on a Blackberry you might perceive it as a lower quality device. Clearly RIM took the money (hopefully) and the risk.

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Convera Ties Up with Fast Search — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:00:57 +0000

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By: Daniel Wilson

Daniel Wilson — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:20:27 +0000

Look guys, the world is changing and competition is different. Its about mass collaboration and Microsoft and RIM both understand that if you wanna survive, you gotta play side by side. Just like Google did with Yahoo…fended off Microsoft and then sent their biggest competitor’s stock (Yahoo) plummeting.

Great strategy and it worked. Now Rim is with Microsoft and who knows what kind of partnerships are gonna form from that – look out!

I am finally a private beta tester! (www.equedia.com) really neat site…

By: Wes

Wes — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:59:52 +0000

I think at this time MS needed some sort of big deal in search and maybe this is it.

By: Jesse Krieger

Jesse Krieger — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:03:26 +0000

That settles it. I’m ditching my BB for an iPhone. No way do I want to run Microsoft software on my mobile device.

By: Blackberry Bold Coming In One Month. RIM Needs It | tinyCrunch

Blackberry Bold Coming In One Month. RIM Needs It | tinyCrunch — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:24:02 +0000

[...] TechCrunch announced today that Microsoft and RIM have reached a search deal. All new Blackberry products will [...]

By: pd

pd — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:13:12 +0000

being a bb user, this is terrible. Live search is probably the worst search on the web and now microsoft can poorly index the mobile web. no thanks. now if only i can talk verizon into letting me out of my contract.

By: WIRELESS « Daily Marauder

WIRELESS « Daily Marauder — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:09:33 +0000

[...] they have struck a deal that will see all BlackBerry smartphones running Microsoft Live Search. (http://www.tech...soft-for-search [...]

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Unlikely Partnership: Microsoft and RIM — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:39:22 +0000

[...] because it’s only Microsoft Live Search, when you think about it, it is quite a big deal. As TechCrunch points out, the next battleground for search will be on the mobile-front and this gives Microsoft the [...]

By: ZR

ZR — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:35:06 +0000

This is a strange turn of events, b/c in OS 4.5.37 (loaded on my curve to allow HTML emails) the first page (about:start) includes a search box with google as the default (the other values in the drop down being Wikipedia and Dictionary.com)

By: Fred Price

Fred Price — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:51:17 +0000

http://livesear.../blackberry.htm

By: evanoOruvan

evanoOruvan — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:49:42 +0000

let me guess. you must live in the bay area. all MS haters

By: Fred Price

Fred Price — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:49:29 +0000

Live search is a mobile application as well as a web site
http://livesear.../blackberry.htm

You’ll certainly be able to to use a different search engine by opening a browser, but who would go through the trouble if it’s an icon on the Blackberry start screen. It’ll probably get speech recognition as well like the Windows Mobile version. http://livesear...dows_mobile.htm

By: Stimpy

Stimpy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:36:07 +0000

This is called “business development”, since you two-bit wantrepreneurs have no fucking clue.

Deals with other companies are not called “bribery”. I suppose Apple “bribed” AT&T too?

Man, am I the only one that thinks TC comments have gone completely down hill? Between the shitty blogs that spam their links with retarded comments, to the total self promoters that comment on every article no matter how irrelevant to their industry.

I don’t mind a shameless plug on a post of a competitor or complimentary business, but every Eff-ing post? Fuck you to all the people that do this!!!

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:56:09 +0000

1) Quit responding to the very first comment of every post in order to show near the top.

2) Your comment’s time stamp shows that your statements are just regurgitated from the comments below (eg. no original insight)

3) Search is not a bunch of different URLs with ‘locator’ appended to them. It is ONE URL where you search for any term. You are a DOMAIN SQUATTER (and a bad one at that).

P.S. “Locator engines” are not links on a page. You need to stop spamming your link farms.

By: Jose Fajardo

Jose Fajardo — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:50:16 +0000

you make me laugh! … No really you do!

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