http://www.cio.com/article/511401/Ve...ackBerry_Users

"U.S. wireless carrier Verizon wants its BlackBerry customers to employ Microsoft's Bing search engine, and it's not-so-subtly pushing some of its users in the Bing-direction by removing all other default search-engine options from their BlackBerry Browsers' "Start" or "Go to" pages.

Gone are the Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO) and Wikipedia options that were available just days before--though Verizon BlackBerry users can still manually access any search engine they please by typing the corresponding URL into the BlackBerry Browser.

The oft-criticized BlackBerry Browser launches with what BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has labeled a "Go to" screen. The BlackBerry Go to screen is a home page of sorts, with an option to search the Web directly from the page, along with both BlackBerry Bookmarks and Internet navigation History.

Typically, BlackBerry users can select their own search engines of choice from the BlackBerry Go to pages and search the Web from there. But as of last week, Verizon decided to eliminate all the search options and now a number of its wireless customers are, in effect, being force-fed Microsoft's (MSFT) Bing. "

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This is the kind of crap I don't want to see from Nokia and if the google search url bar and unremovable ovi is any indicator they seem to be headed that route. So I am bing vocal in my opposition of this behavior.

I sincerely doubt this still matter, seeing as how Maemo is clearly open-source (moreso than before anyway).

You can change the search engine going into the about:config on the Maemo browser, it's a power user device, you should know how to do this =D

just change keyword.URL to http://www.bing.com/search?q=

Yes, this is Verison/RIM getting bucks from Microsoft to do this. And don't worry Microsoft will get slapped with another anti-trust/monolopy lawsuit soon enough.

As for the Nokia doing it, nope doubt it. However Nokia has every right to push their services on their hardware. When they start forcing us to use them, that becomes a different story.

2d

US operators have always considered the phone as part of their network. Hell, AT&T, back in its ma bell days, used to have the wire go straight into the phone, and if you tried to replace said phone, or attach something other then a phone, they viewed that as grounds for termination of service.

ohwut:

Changes in about:config don't seem to "stick" through a reboot.

We need to find the config file and change it there.

look up how to do it on firefox, its the same system...