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New Search Engines in Firefox

posted by martyb on Saturday November 22 2014, @05:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the should-name-a-search-engine:-"Sir Ch" dept.

bookreader writes:

Mozilla announced a change to their strategy for Firefox search partnerships. They are ending the practice of having a single global default search provider. Instead, the default search provider would be determined by location in the following ways:

  • United States: Yahoo (new five year deal), who would support the Do Not Track setting in Firefox
  • Russia: Yandex
  • China: Baidu

Google - together with Bing, DuckDuckGo, and other (depending on location) will continue to be a pre-installed search option. While not a default search provider, Google is not fully out - they will continue to power the Safe Browsing and Geolocation features of Firefox.

 
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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 22 2014, @11:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 22 2014, @11:23AM (#118738)

    I suppose, Moz served its purpose for the period, keeping IE in check. With Chrome established, Google doesn't need Moz as much.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 22 2014, @03:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 22 2014, @03:48PM (#118785)

    Competing with IE was never Firefox's raison d'etre - it was there to prevent Microsoft from appropriating the web's essential standards. Unfortunately, Google has snuck up from behind and done exactly that while undermining Firefox's defense of open and free standards. Despite opposing media source extensions that push support for closed source DRM, Google's decision to force their use on Youtube for particular formats of video have undermined Firefox's position and it's users are now demanding support for a closed 3rd party technology that damages free speech on the web.

    Google don't need Moz at all any more - they're busy trying to kill them. F*** Google!