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Apple removes Google branding from iPhone OS 4 search

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Perhaps it's just me, but for an article about removing Google branding, wouldn't it make sense to show before and after screenshots for those of us without an iPhone?

Here's a screenshot from my iPhone. Note that the "Search" button says "Google"

http://i.imgur.com/0aEMu.jpg

And a bonus screenshot to show more branding. Note that the background of the search bar says "Google"

http://i.imgur.com/nMYci.jpg

That's not how Apple rumour blogs work .... if they're going to make rent this month a story this big has to be done in multiple parts.

The Google branding being removed was to rename the "Google" button to "Search". They aren't actually removing Google search... at least not yet.

Here's a link with before and after http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/10/apple-removes-google-bra...

I actually prefer that button (that launches an action) to be a verb. It does not add ambiguity, because the search provider is not customizable on the iPhone (AFAIK), so it might be for the better off that way. I remember being surprised that it wasn't, when I first got mine about a year ago.

The search is customizable to either google or yahoo. You can reach that from within the safari settings on the iPhone OS.

Did they just remove the Google branding or did they remove the search engine branding? I use Yahoo as my search engine so my button says Yahoo! on it.

Wow. I don't think I've heard someone say they use Yahoo! in 5 years. Why do you prefer it?

I quit using Google a couple of years ago because I was getting way too many results that were SEO optimized with no content. I was also tired of Google manipulating my search terms to provide what it thought were other good things to search for but were really not related. I used Yahoo before Google launched so I checked it out again and the results were great, so I stuck with it. I haven't tried going back because it seems like Google has lots of smart people producing things they think are cool, like Wave, Buzz, and Android, that aren't very good search related consumer products.

I think Yahoo search is now Bing, and it's not all that bad I heard.

No, it's not bing yet, still yahoo for now.

Yahoo outsourced their search to Bing as of a while ago.

Well, they agreed to do so a while ago. But these things take time to happen.

My bad:

"Bing results should be appearing on the Yahoo! sites in the second half of 2010."

http://www.pandia.com/sew/1944-the-end-of-yahoo-search-bing-...

They left the placeholder text as "Google", which is probably more noticeable considering it's visible 100% of the time that the browser address bar is showing.

Screenshot: http://cl.ly/FGn

So it begins...

Why Apple does not take DuckDuckGo as the default search engine?

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