Google Search coming to Samsung Fascinate with Android 2.2 update, Bing not replaceable

By on Sep 11, 2010 at 4:29 PM
mobile September 11, 2010

If you bought a Samsung Fascinate from Verizon Wireless, you might have been feeling a certain way at the fact that the default search engine on the device is Bing and not Google. In addition to Bing being the default, Google Search isn’t even a selectable option. It is well known that Verizon and Microsoft have entered into a multi-device agreement to promote Bing, appearing as the exclusive option on Verizon’s BlackBerry handsets for instance. It wasn’t known if users would ever be able to change search engine options, but a Verizon Wireless spokesperson has chimed in, and broke it down for everyone. Once the Fascinate is updated to Android 2.2, users will be able to download the Google Search application to get their Google searching fix directly from the device. Even with the new application though, customers will not be able to change the default search setting from Bing to Google, and the search button will always trigger a Bing search. Oh well.

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  • al

    I am one of those people who fail to understand why Bing is viewed so poorly. Yes, I use Google search but since I own the Samsung Fascinate I have been using Bing and I like it.

  • DroidFascinate

    why is every one complaining just type in google.com in the browser or download Opera Browser. download google maps and there you go you are using google.

    • Darren

      What alot of you are not understanding is the Google Search function we are referring to is not a mere web search engine. If you’ve you’ve used the feature before on an Android phone you will realize, though it is okay, Bing does fall short. See my post on Oct. 4th. Use this method and you will have the superior Google Search not just the search box of a browser.

  • Dave

    I simply set my home page to GOOGLE. Just another click: Home => Browser and I have google search. no biggy really. Been using the Fascinate for a couple weeks now and absolutely love it. However they do have some major work to do on the Facebook app.

  • Broox

    For now I have the Voice Search shortcut pasted on my home and do it that way. Shame on Verizon, so much for being open source.

    • Broox

      Google Voice Search

  • Matt

    Verizon is retarded. I like their service and all, but they can really fuck up a phone if they want to.

  • Crackmonkeys4hire

    It’s a Google Android device. If I wanted a Microsoft Search engine I’d buy a Microsoft Windblows phone.

  • Padraic00

    I have the Fascinate and everytime I have to fricken search something, I think, “if I only had a droid”… I hate Bing….I seriously think the name is such an oximoron..Bing does not load like *Bing*…it loads like snail in a 5K race…Google is the shizzz

  • Terry Evans

    March 3, 2011 and the system is STILL NOT UPGRADED. What a piece of crap

  • http://dreamproducer.3-dreams.com DreamProducer

    Still not upgraded 7 months after this article posted. Verizon slogged it up with Bing & crapware and now they can’t even get the upgrade to work well enough to roll it out.

  • Fuckbing

    I fucking hate bing! makes me so mad on my fascinate…

  • Asquared

    If anything effected my decision to drop service with Verizon it is due to the fact that I had no choice in being able switch my phone’s search engine to Google.  Bing might not suck, I have no clue because I haven’t used it, but it’s the fact that I as well as many customers didn’t get a say in the matter or aren’t allowed to change what we don’t like that pushes us away from the whole idea of Bing.  It has invaded not only our verizon phones but also the Firefox search engine when you update to the latest version. Bing sucks!

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