After a partnership that held ten years, Mozilla decided to quit Google Search, the default search engine of the browser Firefox, in favor Yahoo, with which he has already signed a five -year contract.
Decision Mozilla to give up the partnership with Google comes after cooling the relationship between the two companies (already Firefox was distributed with other search engines default for Russia and China, that is Yandex, respectively Baidu), even if the use of Google Search as a default search engine in Firefox represented a consistent source of income for Google. Although at present Firefox no longer occupy the first place in the ranking of the most popular browsers, Mozilla said that users of this browser still generate over 100 billion searches annual. In these conditions, even if the details of the signed contract with Google have never been made public, income Google Following use Google Search as a default search engine of Firefox was estimated around a 300 million dollars Annually, that is 85% from the company's receipts Mozilla.
Currently, change the search engine default in browser-ul Firefox in Yahoo will only be applied to the territory YOUR, for the other countries (apart from Russia and China, obviously) to be used below Google Search, at least for a period. Also, users Firefox from the territory of the United States will be able to continue to set any other search engine as a default engine (including Google Search), however, according to statistics, most of them will use the engine provided by browser.
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