Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S.
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Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S.
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Re: Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S.
#2Makes sense I guess. Nobody wants Yahoo search as a default.
Re: Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S.
#3I feel like the quality of deep search is diminishing; either there is less free content on the web, or search has been optimized for something else; I just get the same results over and over, not matter what combination of search terms I used on a topic.
Re: Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S.
#4DuckDuckGo, Start Page, or Qwant might have been a little more in the spirit of Mozilla and privacy.
Then again it takes about half a second to change the default search to your own preference.
Google is probably the most approachable for the vast majority of users. It is a sensible move in that regard.
Re: Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S.
#5There will likely be some people errantly suggesting this is due to search quality. It is not. Yahoo previously outbid Google approximately three years ago for that default search offering, and it's likely their arrangement has come to an end. One of Mozilla's strongest sources of funding comes from selling the default search engine spot to the highest bidder.
EDIT: As an interesting note: Yahoo's deal was for five years, not three. I am guessing Verizon decided it didn't want to pay for Mozilla anymore, and cut it off early?
Re: Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S.
#6Looks like Google is gaining its foothold back
Re: Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S.
#7So Mozilla backed out of their 5-year contract with Yahoo then [1]. Do they have a new agreement with Google that I'm not seeing anywhere?
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-an...
Re: Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S.
#8Shortened title is misleading:
Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider... "in the U.S., Canada, Hong Kong and Taiwan"
EDIT title updated (within HN title length constraints, I guess), thanks admins :)
Re: Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S.
#9just another reason to avoid it. mandatory telemetry, mandatory pulseaudio in linux, pocket, that weird failed video chat thing, and the DRM add-on that literally no one asked for.
Re: Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S.
#10Looks like Google is gaining its foothold back
I've been out of reading news about it are they still shuffling cash to Mozilla?