Can someone PLEASE help me find a solution to use a custom search engine for iPhones?? Thanks in advance!
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Hey mozzers, I'm in quite the pickle today and would really appreciate some help!
i need a way to have my members set their default custom search engine on their iPhones and androids to our sites search engine.
Google chrome does on desktops but not iPhones.
Thanks for your time/help,
Tyler Abernethy
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No problem, please let me know what you come up with I would be interested to find out
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I'd rather not divulge to much into why they would use ours, other than the fact people support any tool, or feature that we can offer.
So basically, our members are expecting us to move into other realms (like search)
Currently we have the desktop factor figured out. the problem is, mobile devices, which i'm sure you know are of increasing importance (especially for our 19 - 23 demographic)
I noticed that you mentioned that the only way WE could "force it" would be with a jailbroken phone, but is there no way that the user can download an app, or a different browser that DOES allow THEM to choose to change it?
Thanks a ton for all your help Cesar, i'm gonna keep searching too, hopefully we can figure it out?
- Tyler
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Ah I see...
Ok on IOS you can't just change someone default search engine yourself through any third party site. You just can't access a users phone like that. Not sure about android, but I am curious about it as well so I will research that too.
The closet thing you can get to doing something like that is with a Jailbroken iPhone but the user still has to make the change physically on their phone.
http://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/971788
The first suggestion is by far the closet thing you are going to get with what you want, you force a default search engine but you can encourage them to use your site instead.
Let me ask you this as an outsider, what would encourage me to use your search engine over someone else?
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Nice. That's closer than what anyone else has recommended! I am going to hold off on the good answer to try and get more replies, but that is close!
I really need to be able to change their default search engine for their iphone safari browser (or find a browser that they can use, which DOES allow changing the default search engine)
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I use this for my IOS users, works great and I get a ton of returning visitors because of it
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