T-Mobile USA has replaced Yahoo with Google as its default search engine on mobile phones, such as BlackBerry smartphones. Yahoo says it will continue to work with T-Mobile, citing the recent partnership on Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger and on content services such as the placement of various Yahoo services on T-Mobile’s Web2Go portal. Default search deals significantly improve search engine market share, as users are more likely to carry out searches through the search engine presented by the browser.
– Wireless carriers AT amp;T and T-Mobile are playing a game of musical
default search engines, giving and taking away in a fun display of mobile phone
brinksmanship.
Days after iPhone carrier AT amp;T said it had chosen Yahoo as the default search
engine for the Android-based Motorola Backflip, T…