After a partnership that lasted ten years, Mozilla He decided to quit Google Search, search engine default the browser Firefox, in favor of the Yahoo, Which has already signed a contract for five years.
Decision Mozilla to renounce partnership with Google comes after cooling the relationship between the two companies (already Firefox It was distributed to other search engines default for Russia si Chinaie Yandexor Baidu) Even if use Google Search as the default search engine Firefox be a consistent source of income for Google. Although the present Firefox no longer ranks first in the ranking of the popular browsers, Mozilla He said that users of the browser generates more than 100 billion searches annual. In these conditions, even if the details of the contract signed by Google were never made public, income Google from the use Google Search as an engine default search al Firefox It was estimated around 300 million dollars year, that 85% the company's revenues Mozilla.
There, change search engine default in Firefox browser in Yahoo It will be applied only on the territory USAFor the other countries (except Russia and China, of course) will continue to use Google SearchAt least for a while. Also users Firefox United Starelor territory will continue to set any search engine as an engine default (inclusive Google Search), But according to statistics, most of them will use the supplied browser engine.
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