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>> "IIRC they still pay Mozilla for making Google the default homepage" > True. Not true. Mozilla switched to Yahoo a few years back; Google doesn't give them
by jlongster 10y ago
>> "IIRC they still pay Mozilla for making Google the default homepage"
> True.
Not true. Mozilla switched to Yahoo a few years back; Google doesn't give them any money. And it's not the default homepage, it's the default search engine (the default homepage always starts out `about:home`).
- ronjouch 10y agoEh I guess you're right, as you're mozillian and as I remembered Yahoo too. But can you help me understand this: I was unsure whether today's Mozilla deal was with Yahoo or Google, so I double-checked before asserting True. And running firefox with a fresh new profile, I confirm all search sources (awesome bar, in-chrome search box, about:home in-content search box) default to querying Google, not Yahoo. Is it new to be back to Google? Or maybe it's specific to Nightly builds? (53.0a1 2016-12-01) -- EDIT no, same behavior under 50.0.2 stable. And it's not the OS either, I tried Ubuntu and Windows --. Any idea why, then?
- kbrosnan 10y agoYahoo is only the default for users in North America. Bidau for China and Yandex for Russia. In most other cases Google is the default as their search service produces good results for the user. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-and-innovation-on-the-web/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-an...
- ronjouch 10y agoAaah it's geographical; thanks :) Nit: s/North America/USA/, I guess, as I live in Canada and get Google.