Verizon Taps Microsoft for Mobile Search Over Google, Yahoo
Verizon announced yesterday that they had signed a deal with Microsoft to provide web search for cell phones and other mobile devices. This is seen as a loss for Google and Yahoo, who were both courting the cell-phone giant for their own search services.
Negotiations over the contract have been ongoing for about a year, and is seen as big win for Microsoft, which has been struggling to gain market share for its search platform, which continues to lag behind Google despite making modest gains in usage.
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