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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: 2, Funny) by Ian Johnson on Saturday November 22 2014, @04:44PM

    by Ian Johnson (4866) on Saturday November 22 2014, @04:44PM (#118804)

    Here at Mozilla we believe many users are confused by the large number of countries, oceans and seas in the world. We've therefore simplified the world with a new map that's fun, innovative and reduces clutter:

    http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1caTN2CojvtbCaQHSyzyQdjikqXnAk [pixentral.com]

    Some geographical features may have been lost in this update, but we believe this sacrifice is necessary in the name of innovation. Anyone who objects to the loss of these features is stupid and can't understand the genius of our vision.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 22 2014, @05:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 22 2014, @05:11PM (#118819)

    lul

  • (Score: 2) by KritonK on Tuesday November 25 2014, @10:12AM

    by KritonK (465) on Tuesday November 25 2014, @10:12AM (#119737)

    Actually, they do have an "all countries" section in TFA, where they mention that, if you are not unlucky enough to live in one of the countries in the previous sections, you'll get a choice of "61 search providers pre-installed in Firefox across 88 different language versions", instead of only a handful of alternatives.