New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by Osmose » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:35 PM UTC

New Search Strategy for Firefox
blog.mozilla.org

Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by s4sharpie » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:39 PM UTC

Looks like a smart move by Yahoo to be the default search for a major browser: google/chrome, bing/ie. This also means that Firefox will likely get some serious support from Yahoo in $$s to build back market share. Question is can they catch Google?

Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by briholt » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:40 PM UTC

Anyone have any insights into this? From the outside it looks like Mozilla is parting ways with Google because of Chrome. Interesting they went with Yahoo and not Bing.

Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by pwnna » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:41 PM UTC

One question: wasn't Yahoo supposed to be a part of Bing at some point?

Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by metzman » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:45 PM UTC

pwnna wrote: post #4

One question: wasn't Yahoo supposed to be a part of Bing at some point?

I think they made a deal that Yahoo search results would be provided by bing

Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by AshleysBrain » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:45 PM UTC

Does this mean Yahoo outbid Google for being the new default search? How much is the deal worth? What about outside the US?

Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by acdha » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:47 PM UTC

pwnna wrote: post #4

One question: wasn't Yahoo supposed to be a part of Bing at some point?

Yahoo has used Bing's search infrastructure for awhile but they've kept the independent front-end and, based on my logs, some level of crawling, presumably to keep their options open so they could switch in the future.

Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by agapos » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:47 PM UTC

Doesn't that mean that Google giving up on one of the biggest markets means they no longer need Mozilla and it can ditch it's support altogether? Will Yahoo be able to support Moz as Google did? Will this became precedence for other countries too (aside from exceptions like Russia's yandex)?

Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by huhtenberg » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:47 PM UTC

s4sharpie wrote: post #2

Looks like a smart move by Yahoo to be the default search for a major browser: google/chrome, bing/ie. This also means that Firefox will likely get some serious support from Yahoo in $$s to build back market share. Question is can they catch Google?

Don't forget though that Yahoo Search runs off Bing.

Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:48 PM UTC

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