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Mozilla does not renew the 5-year contract with Google, but Yahoo

33 points by nicolagreco 12y ago

zajd 12y ago
Uhh, does Yahoo's "new" search look like a clone of Google to anyone?
- owenwil 12y ago
  Yep. Complete with Google's cards look and everything. It should be noted that Yahoo has a five-year contract to deliver search results from Bing in the US
  - dragonwriter 12y ago
    > It should be noted that Yahoo has a five-year contract to deliver search results from Bing in the US Isn't that 5 years remaining on a 10 year contract?
xanderstrike 12y ago
Yahoo's search is utter garbage [1], cluttered with misleading ads and other nonsense. This is a major downgrade for Firefox, as it no longer comes with a working search out of the box. [1] http://i.imgur.com/sZUIGwc.png http://i.imgur.com/sZUIGwc.png
- mightykan 12y ago
  Yahoo's rolling out a new interface for search for Firefox by the end of this year, and other browser beginning next year. The official Mozilla blog [1] has screenshots of the new design, which mimics the existing cleaner Google site. [1]: 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...
  - thaumaturgy 12y ago
    So the new interface will look like Google but won't have Google's results.
- stephenr 12y ago
  the big difference there, is that Yahoo doesn't have a paid ad from LibreOffice, whereas Google does. The other results are very similar - the official site, wikipedia article, download.com, etc. So your complaint is that the LibreOffice project hasn't paid for an ad on whatever ad network Yahoo uses/runs?
oska 12y ago
> That contract with Google was set to expire this year, though, and it look [sic] like either Yahoo made an offer Mozilla couldn’t refuse or Google decided to walk away from the deal. I imagine most of us are assuming the latter?
- stephenr 12y ago
  Google's actions are increasingly negative from a personal freedom and personal privacy standpoint. Mozilla specifically mention that supporting DNT (Do Not Track) user preferences was part of the deal with Yahoo. Google's whole business model relies on huge numbers of users of their "free" services to monetise eyeballs on ads (plus of course further building profiles on users) - I find it very hard to believe they initiated this change.

33 points by nicolagreco 12y ago

zajd 12y ago

Uhh, does Yahoo's "new" search look like a clone of Google to anyone?

owenwil 12y ago
Yep. Complete with Google's cards look and everything. It should be noted that Yahoo has a five-year contract to deliver search results from Bing in the US
- dragonwriter 12y ago
  > It should be noted that Yahoo has a five-year contract to deliver search results from Bing in the US Isn't that 5 years remaining on a 10 year contract?

xanderstrike 12y ago

Yahoo's search is utter garbage [1], cluttered with misleading ads and other nonsense. This is a major downgrade for Firefox, as it no longer comes with a working search out of the box. [1] http://i.imgur.com/sZUIGwc.png http://i.imgur.com/sZUIGwc.png

mightykan 12y ago
Yahoo's rolling out a new interface for search for Firefox by the end of this year, and other browser beginning next year. The official Mozilla blog [1] has screenshots of the new design, which mimics the existing cleaner Google site. [1]: 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...
- thaumaturgy 12y ago
  So the new interface will look like Google but won't have Google's results.
stephenr 12y ago
the big difference there, is that Yahoo doesn't have a paid ad from LibreOffice, whereas Google does. The other results are very similar - the official site, wikipedia article, download.com, etc. So your complaint is that the LibreOffice project hasn't paid for an ad on whatever ad network Yahoo uses/runs?

oska 12y ago

> That contract with Google was set to expire this year, though, and it look [sic] like either Yahoo made an offer Mozilla couldn’t refuse or Google decided to walk away from the deal. I imagine most of us are assuming the latter?

stephenr 12y ago
Google's actions are increasingly negative from a personal freedom and personal privacy standpoint. Mozilla specifically mention that supporting DNT (Do Not Track) user preferences was part of the deal with Yahoo. Google's whole business model relies on huge numbers of users of their "free" services to monetise eyeballs on ads (plus of course further building profiles on users) - I find it very hard to believe they initiated this change.