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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: 3, Informative) by doublerot13 on Saturday November 22 2014, @04:46PM

    by doublerot13 (4497) on Saturday November 22 2014, @04:46PM (#118806)

    Google maintains a malicious website list that firefox uses[Safe Browsing] and firefox also sends your public IP to Google for it to return a location/region for that IP.

    Google is involved because they provide these 'services' for free to Mozilla.

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