While 10 years Google was the default search engine for Firefox, it will Yahoo! successor for the next five years.
Since Google launched its Chrome browser, which began to capture market share of Firefox, the relationship between Google and the Mozilla Foundation have gradually deteriorated, although the search is near the income of the foundation. A page of this alliance is now touring as it has been announced that it will become the next Yahoo search engine by default Firefox for the next five years.
The engine Google search will always remain in Firefox, but more as default engine.
It should be noted that Yahoo! will be the default search engine worldwide. The Foundation has also decided that in fact it would Yandex in Russia and Baidu in China.
While the financial participation of Google was estimated at about $ 300 million, the amount was negotiated with Yahoo! not disclosed. In this regard, Chris Beard, CEO of Mozilla, said that “improving economic conditions is solid,” adding that “it will allow Mozilla to innovate and advance our mission to better serve our users and web. “
Yahoo! also a good deal because the traffic generated by Firefox is estimated at some 100 billion requests per year. This will allow the search engine, powered by Microsoft’s Bing, to reposition itself to face Google.
Finally, we must add that it is in a next version of Firefox that change engine default search will be a version that will inherit a search engine “clean and modern” from Yahoo!.
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