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Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by dec0dedab0de » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:48 PM UTC

pwnna wrote: post #4

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

I think yahoo is/was sending off search results to Bing. A long time ago they used to send them to Google. Before that they would refer to themselves as a web directory, not a search engine. And WAYY before that every result page had a link to search on different sites, web crawler, lycos, maybe even google my memory is kind of fuzzy.

The point is that Yahoo cares more about getting people to their portal, not so much what technology it happens to be using.

Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by sp332 » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:50 PM UTC

I'd swear this happened already... I updated Firefox on an old Android tablet yesterday and the default search was already switched to Yahoo. Edit: ah, now that you mention it, it was a Beta version.

Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by dec0dedab0de » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:50 PM UTC

The real question is did Google stop paying? did Yahoo offer way more? Or did Mozilla want to break out from Google's shadow?

Edit: I mean to say did Google decide to end it, or did Mozilla, and why?

Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by victor27 » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:50 PM UTC

Curious - do people here view the Yahoo! Search Experience to be better or worse than Google Search?

Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by Osmose » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:50 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #10

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You're assuming that Yahoo is paying more, assuming that money was the motivation for making the deal, and assuming that Mozilla employees believe that partnering with Google is better for the open web than partnering with Yahoo.

Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by kumar303 » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:51 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #10

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The deal is only for the default engine. Firefox users are still free to switch it to Google, Duck Duck Go, or Yandex or anything

Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by huhtenberg » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:51 PM UTC

Here's the option to suppress the change - http://i.imgur.com/HwHqQU9.png

Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by mythmon_ » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:51 PM UTC

victor27 wrote: post #14

Curious - do people here view the Yahoo! Search Experience to be better or worse than Google Search?

This is kind of a moot point. If you read the article carefully, you'll notice that Yahoo will be bringing "a new, re-imagined Yahoo search experience to Firefox users in the U.S"

Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by lzecon » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:51 PM UTC

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #13

The real question is did Google stop paying? did Yahoo offer way more? Or did Mozilla want to break out from Google's shadow? Edit: I mean to say did Google decide to end it, or did Mozilla, and why?

Yup, they didn't renew the google contract

Re: New Search Strategy for Firefox

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Post by cpeterso » Wed, Nov 19, 2014, 9:52 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #12

I'd swear this happened already... I updated Firefox on an old Android tablet yesterday and the default search was already switched to Yahoo. Edit: ah, now that you mention it, it was a Beta version.

Firefox for Android has been testing Yahoo as the default search engine for a few months. Mozilla's search deal with Google did not cover mobile browsers. Firefox OS uses Bing.