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I found some statistics a while ago that seemed to indicate a big chunk of Firefox users who got Yahoo as the default, kept Yahoo as the default.

• kibwen 9y ago
  My own anecdote: when Yahoo became the default for Firefox, the drop in quality was noticeable, but not enough for me to abandon it immediately. I gave it time to see whether the difference in quality was only because of the extensive profile that Google has on me. After a while I stopped realizing that the search results weren't Google (it helps that Yahoo revamped their results page to imitate Google, which was probably a very wise decision); it turns out, that for most of my searches, Google-level quality doesn't matter (e.g. "apple turnover recipe"). I switched from Yahoo to Bing once the Verizon buyout began. Nowadays I only search Google when I need to find an obscure and specific page that isn't already in my browser history (since Firefox's history search via the URL bar is damn good).