Sorry Google, Verizon Picks Microsoft

It looks like Verizon has dissed Google by picking Microsoft as its default search provider on the company's mobile devices.

Verizon has chosen Microsoft to provide Internet search services for cell phones, in what is seen as a knockout punch to rivals Google and Yahoo (as if Yahoo was even still relevant).

Verizon CEO, Ivan Seidenberg, yesterday that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would announce the deal at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Seidenberg, speaking at a Citigroup conference, gave no further details.

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 number one mobile carrier in the U.S. after it seals the deal on its purchase of smaller operator Alltel at the end of this week.

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