Firefox partners with Yahoo starting December. As soon as this new partnership kicks off, Yahoo will be the default search engine for Firefox in the United States on both mobile gadgets and desktop.
This was part of a five-year deal between the two companies. Apart from the launch, Yahoo will also be launching a new search experience for Firefox users in the United States. It is expected to go live at the same time that Firefox makes the switch from Google.
This "new search experience" will be showcasing "a clean, modern, and immersive design that reflects input from the Mozilla team."
In Russia, however, Firefox will be making use of another type of search engine, called the Yandex Search. Also, in China, the default search engine will be Baidu.
Those who have gotten accustomed to using Google need not fret about these changes since they can still have access to it. Google, DuckDuckGo and other local search engines are still available as built-in alternatives.
The Mozilla Foundation has long made most of the money it has earned with its partnership with Google. Google has always been the search engine that comes up whenever Firefox is fired up. In 2012, which is also the year that data was last gathered from, 88% of the income of Mozilla came from Google, alone.
Contrary to what rumors say regarding Firefox partners with Yahoo, there was nothing fishy about this recent turn of events. Although it may look like Yahoo made a much better offer to Mozilla, one that the latter company cannot refuse, or Google opted to walk away from the partnership, the truth is actually pretty simple: the contract between Google and Mozilla was to expire this year.
Chris Beard, CEO of Mozilla, said in a statement, "Google has been the Firefox global search default since 2004. Our agreement came up for renewal this year, and we took this as an opportunity to review our competitive strategy and explore our options."
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