{"id":20439,"date":"2010-05-29T14:41:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T13:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=20439"},"modified":"2010-05-29T14:46:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T13:46:40","slug":"ballmer-bing-on-iphone-genius-bing-bing-bing-see-bing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/29\/ballmer-bing-on-iphone-genius-bing-bing-bing-see-bing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballmer: Bing On iPhone. Genius. Bing! Bing! Bing! .. See? Bing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the guys over at @TechCrunch, multiple sources including one specific high-level source, yesterday placed Microsoft&#8217;s new attempt at the search engine &#8211; Bing!, as poised to <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/05\/28\/source-microsoft-bing-taking-over-iphone-search\/\" target=\"_blank\">take the place of Google search<\/a> in iPhone OS 4.0. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Still unconfirmed, the rumor comes from a so called &#8220;high level&#8221; source who claims to have been briefly let in on the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Its no secret that Apple and Google haven&#8217;t exactly been getting on like a house on fire lately, one of the reasons is due to Google entering the mobile phone market with its Nexus One, creating direct competition for the company&#8217;s iPhone handset on a massive scale. The second of course was when Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2009\/08\/21\/the-simple-truth-whats-really-going-on-with-apple-google-att-and-the-fcc\/\" target=\"_blank\">rejected Google Voice<\/a> from its App Store. In a sentence, this threw the companies into an out-and-out war with eachother. <\/p>\n<p>Google was reportedly paying Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com\/articles\/10\/02\/11\/google_pays_apple_100m_year_for_search_on_iphone_rumor.html\" target=\"_blank\">$100 million a year<\/a> to secure their search rights on iPhone OS. Now, according to sources within Google itself, Apple just isn&#8217;t happy at the amount of core iPhone OS applications which are powered by the search giant&#8217;s technologies, and so they&#8217;ve been looking elsewhere &#8230; they&#8217;ve been looking at Microsoft. <\/p>\n<p>Most people have speculated though that an announcement of this nature would require Microsoft&#8217;s CEO to attend one of Apple&#8217;s events, and while he was rumored to be showing his face at this year&#8217;s WWDC, Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/27\/steve-ballmer-to-present-at-wwdc-rumor\/\" target=\"_blank\">quickly denied the claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[via @TechCrunch]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the guys over at @TechCrunch, multiple sources including one specific high-level source, yesterday placed Microsoft&#8217;s new attempt at the search engine &#8211; Bing!, as poised to <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/05\/28\/source-microsoft-bing-taking-over-iphone-search\/\" target=\"_blank\">take the place of Google search<\/a> in iPhone OS 4.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2786,174,2028,16,17],"tags":[109,1735,3007,3005,295,336,23,3006,525,670,560,3008],"class_list":["post-20439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-blog","category-blog","category-ipad","category-iphone","category-ipod","tag-advertising","tag-announcement","tag-ballmer","tag-giant","tag-google","tag-iphone-os","tag-microsoft","tag-mobile-space","tag-rumors","tag-search","tag-steve-jobs","tag-techcrunch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20439"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20445,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439\/revisions\/20445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}