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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 22 2014, @05:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 22 2014, @05:39PM (#118828)

    > Mozilla caused the current Google monoculture by shitting all over every Firefox user time and time and time again.

    Unless there is some connection between your rant and google's search engine that only you are aware of, you seem to have a lose grip on sanity.