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Motorola to manipulation Bing Search and Maps services on its Android smartphones for Communist China

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Back in January, we picked up a storey from Reuters involving Motorola (New York Stock Exchange: MOT) which said they’ll use Baidu instead of Google on their Android smartphones in Communist China. Now we have the same company [Motorola] announcing a trade with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) to use Bing. So one wonders – what’s occurrence here?

This meter, however, it’s not Reuters picking up the story, but we have the official MOTO press release, which I guess, we should trust more.

Under the trade, the American English handset maker volition preload all of its future tense Android smartphones with Bing Search and Maps capabilities (start from this quarter), whereas existing headphone owners volition get Bing as part of the microcode update.

In cause you wonder, the Bing integrating includes preloaded Bing bookmarker in a mobile browser and an “enhanced hunt appliance with Bing integrating.”

It’s all about a consumer choice and tractability, according to Microsoft’s Yusuf Mehdi. There’s also something about eyeballs that makes advertisers go crazy.

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