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Verizon picks Microsoft search over Google, Yahoo

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Verizon BlackBerry users get ready to surf Microsoft.

After a year of speculation who Verizon would choose as its default search provider on its cellphones, it expected that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will announce a deal between Microsoft and Verizon later today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

“The deal follows more than a year of speculation on who would become the default mobile search provider for Verizon Wireless, which is set to surpass AT&T Inc as the No. 1 U.S. mobile carrier after it closes its purchase of smaller operator Alltel later this week.

“It’s certainly a feather in Microsoft’s cap. Tough news for Google and tougher news for Yahoo,” CCS Insight analyst John Jackson said of the agreement.”

[via Reuters]