“According to a report by TechCrunch, Apple’s next revision of the iPhone OS won’t drop Google for Bing entirely, but will expand the number of search options iPhone users see, and apparently make those options more visible,” Dilger reports.
“Apple already provides an option to use Yahoo for web search in Safari, although that option is not obvious and requires visiting system settings to make the switch,” Dilger reports. “A parallel report by Kara Swisher in the Wall Street Journal ‘All Things Digital’ blog indicates Microsoft has been asking that Bing search be added to the iPhone’s search options for some time, and also wants to make the choice more visible to users.”
Dilger reports, “Microsoft has also been in talks with Apple to get its mapping services integrated into the iPhone. Individual iPhone apps have already made use of Microsoft’s mapping services, but Apple’s own Maps app on the iPhone and iPad is hardwired to Google’s mapping services. Last fall, Apple purchased Placebase, a mapping service designed to overlay demographic, economic and environmental data on top of maps. It has since been speculated that Apple planned to use the acquisition to either build an alternative mapping service for iPhone Maps, or more likely, add additional layers of features on top of the current Maps data to differentiate the iPhone from Google’s own map app for Android.”
Read much more in the full article here.
My enemy’s enemy is my friend…?
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Bing bada … BOOM!!!
I still can’t stand M$. Their name choices even aggravate me.
They’re contrived and obviously mashed together around a boardroom table with no one ballsy enough to say, “Hey, one syllable isn’t enough to make a product ‘edgy’ and ‘cool’.”
A mapping service from a company with no clue where it is going? Interesting idea.
This was the topic of discussion between Eric Schmidt and Steve Jobs during that famous “coffee shop” meeting. This is why Google turned nasty during their recent meeting.
Microsoft isn’t the threat it used to be. After all these years they still don’t know how to produce a decent User Interface. Poorly copying a 2 to 5 year old Apple UI just doesn’t cut it any more.
Eff Google. I set my iPhone search to Yahoo two days ago. I’m doing my small part to prevent a draconian future where one company, masquerading as Santa Claus, tracks everyone’s web activity.
I happen to like Bing and think it’s maps are superior to Googs. Way to go Apple!!!!
magic word…who Who the hell does Google think they are…
I dislike anything to do with Microsoft.
Anything.
Anything at all.
Period.
Even Bing.
Except Bing Crosby, that is.
I, too, changed all my search boxes to Yahoo! — the day of Google’s VP’s mischosen words. Competition will make all products better but I have no interest in supporting people (representing companies) who don’t think before they speak. What else might they be doing without thinking?!
It’s tough to like M$, but the Mac space in general has been lacking in trip/route planning tools for a while now. I’d like to see M$ release a version of Streets and Trips for the Mac, in return for including Bing in the search options. I’ve used it on the SOs Windows machine and it is really pretty good.
Don’t know if M$ is keeping Flight Simulator current, but wouldn’t mind seeing it in the Mac space either.
Not everyone has iPhones and iPads and we’re not always connected to a network. Good free-standing applications are still needed, new cloud-based paradigm or not.
If apple replaces their map services with one from bing “Microsoft” I will supported if that means sleeping with the enemy ….. I hate google for all they are trying to copy from apple …. Fcuk Google they have no sense of real innovation period everything they do is just a copy.
P.S I would love to kick Eric & his 2 cronnies asses every time they put on that stupid smile.
The Bing name is derived from Bingo Halls (real name unknown), a notorious alcoholic, gambler, womanizer and serial bigamist who lived in the Boston area around the close of the 19th century.
A small group of people pushed for this name without explaining it’s origin and decided to keep schtumm when the name Bing was gaining momentum.
Not many people know this…
I always thought:
Bing = Because Its Not Goggle
Right or wrong, I do like this definition.
Microsoft is no longer the enemy, they’re inconsequential now that Apple has passed them in market cap. It’s clear Microsoft doesn’t have a clue on how to compete in a fair market.
Bing maps look fine in my GPS app. The one by MotionX. I also switched over to Yahoo! search.
Isn’t that like a surgeon operating on you just to attach an appendix?
I’ve always assumed BING was chosen as the name of Microsoft search because the lead engineer or manager was Chinese, and Bing is also a common chinese word with lots of meanings. It could mean ice or together or soldier or weapon or cake or reject or third or remarkable or sick.
While I think Bing meaning 3rd is funny, as Bing is 3rd after Google and Yahoo!, I doubt it was chosen for that. It’s more likely it was chosen because it means ice, so that Ballmer was told it means cool. Or perhaps Ballmer was told it means a weapon, he’d like that. A chair can be a weapon right? Or he was told bing meant sick, but real sick, not cool sick.
Apple can hurt Google by simply having people choose a default search engine the first time they boot up their iDevice or when they ship the next OS ugrade. Even if only 25% make a different choice than Google, that will put a big hurt on their mobile expansion.
It’s Bing as in bada-bing I found it!
“It could mean ice or together or soldier or weapon or cake or reject or third or remarkable or sick.”
That sounds more like a Disney on Ice casting callback.
“We have always been at war with EastAsia…”
Good. I dislike Google more than Msft. Microsnot is just inept. Goog is sneaky. I don’t like sneaky. And I don’t like their sanctimonius attitude either. Goog is too big brother for me.
So having an option is good. I also like Bing as well.
While I’d rather gnaw off my own arm than use Bing, I hope this inspires Google to at least FIX THEIR BROKEN SEARCH ENGINE.
It’s gotten so bad that excluding keywords doesn’t even work right. Here, go run this search on Google:
rxtx osx -mail
The third hit is a link to mailman.qbang.org. Wait, what? See, if an exlucuded keyword is part of a URL, then Google will helpfully INCLUDE it in the search results, which is obviously the exact fucking opposite of what anybody excluding a keyword wants to happen.
The wildcard * doesn’t work consistently anymore, either. And I just loooooove how Google will by default return search results containing variations of the keyword I really searched for. Example? Entering:
timer
Will also yield hits with ‘time’ and ‘timing’ in them instead of ‘timer’. This wonderful little feature forces me to wrap 99% of the keywords I search for in quote marks so that Google will kind of, y’know, actually look for them.
Oh, but why don’t I switch to a search engine that doesn’t have the fundamentals of searching all fucked up?
Because Google has the biggest search index and, on the increasingly rare occasions it functions right, the best algorithm.
It’s seriously become the Microsoft Windows of search-engines. It sucks hard, but “all the links are for it”, so I’m forced to use the piece of shit if I want the most results available to me. Which I guess is why Google doesn’t seem to care about fixing it. Gee thanks, company of “do no evil” or whatever that slogan is.
The name Bing and Microsoft’s branding doesn’t belong on my iPhone. I hope they make it easy to disable.
Wasn’t Yahoo integration enough?
As long as Bing filters out and refuses to return anti MS content when asked for it, I’ll not use it.
Bing is an MS propaganda tool, and MS uses it to censor media. No one should find that acceptable.