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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...

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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.

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