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Microsoft has beat out Google to become the default search provider on all phones on the Vrizon wireless network.
Seteve Ballmer made the announcement to a packed hall as part of his keynote address at 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas recently.

Starting in the first half of 2009, , Microsoft (MSFT,fortune 500) will power all search on Verizon Wireless devices and serve up the advertising.

The five-year deal is strategically critical to Microsoft, which didn’t yet have a search deal in the United States. Competitor Yahoo(YAHOO, Fortune 500) powers AT&T and T-mobile and Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) is the search provider for Sprint, That’s why Microsoft has fought so hard to wrangle the deal from the reigning search giant.