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posted by janrinok on Saturday November 22 2014, @08:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the follow-the-money dept.

Chris Beard, CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, announced in his blog Wednesday, 11 November 2014, that they were ending their 10-year relationship with Google. As of December, they begin a five-year "strategic partnership" with Yahoo.

For those wondering why the switch, The Verge has an interesting take on it:

In tech, little things can have big consequences — in this case, a tiny search bar. Last night, Firefox made a surprising announcement: after 10 years with Google as its default search engine, it would be handing the tiny search bar over to Yahoo. On the face of it, it's a strange move. If you're looking for almost anything on the internet, Google is a much better way to find it than Yahoo is. But that small search bar isn't just a feature, it's a business. And it’s a business that reveals how Mozilla and Google could increasingly be at odds with each other.

[We touched on this in a recent story about Firefox's expanding search options, but this aspect seems significant enough to merit specific attention. -LaminatorX]

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Justin Case on Saturday November 22 2014, @09:42PM

    by Justin Case (4239) on Saturday November 22 2014, @09:42PM (#118924) Journal

    Believe me I am very aware of the danger. The question is, how do we banish them to another planet?

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by useless on Sunday November 23 2014, @12:57AM

    by useless (426) on Sunday November 23 2014, @12:57AM (#118984)
    NYC tried a PSA campaign [gothamist.com], but it didn't work well enough.
    Then there was a "Catch and Release" [gothamist.com] type program. The problem was they forgot to do the "Release" part outside the city, and just got overrun with them.
    Maybe we can work with the Mars One [mars-one.com] project to fill the rockets with PBR, MacBooks, and Rails manuals.