What Microsoft evil? What about Apple??
People just love to hate Microsoft. Not sure why, but they just do. Microsoft is evil…, or so people like to say.
If Microsoft is evil, I don’t know what Apple is. Microsoft has been pushed around left and right to remove components out of their Windows operating system. And when they add a search box inside their web browser, they made sure there is an easy way for users to switch to use Google, Yahoo!, or whatever search engine they wish.
So did Apple do the same when they ship Safari?
Hell NO! The search provider on the iPhone is just limited to Google and Yahoo! period. You can’t even add new search providers. So what about the latest spanking new Apple Safari 4 that was just released today? You are locked into using Google as the search engine. I don’t know what kind of BS is this. If Microsoft had even done half of this, people would be screaming and crying foul. Yet people seems to be ok when Apple does it. Yes, you may say Microsoft has a dominant market share of the desktop web browser market, but the same argument can be made for the iPhone Safari in the mobile web browser market.
Why then, does nobody cry foul?
We Really Want To Use Bing!
Since Microsoft released Bing last week, we have been using it as our default search engine. We haven’t found a need to go back to Google anymore. If you want to use Bing in the web browser search box, you will need to work around Apple’s evilness by downloading the Safari plug-in called Glims from here. Once you install it, restart Safari and go into Preferences. There, you will be able to add any search engine you like and use it the search box.
Glims section inside Safari 4 Preferences – adding Bing
June 9th, 2009 at 4:54 am
I know what you mean man, Microsoft is like the black guy, who gets blamed for robberies and car thefts, while apple is like the white collared folks, who of course is doing everything right, even proved wrong.
Go Microsoft!!!! Apple do churn out good products…. Google? not so much.
June 9th, 2009 at 9:14 am
[...] Safari 4 release – some might find this exciting. While it has some interesting UI glitzy effects, we were most excited about defeating Apple’s evilness and get Bing to show up as the search provider. [...]
June 27th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Safari 4 for windows is a biggest rip off of google chrome… i cant even find the difference sometimes…. all features identical and even some UI elements….. go for google and opensource….