Firefox dumps Google!!!

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For the past decade, Google has been the default option in the Firefox search box. That’s about to change: Mozilla has announced that they’re dumping Google in favor of Yahoo! and Yandex. Eventually, the change could push nearly 400 million search users away from Google.

Initially, though, the deal will only impact Firefox users in the United States and Russia. Mozilla hasn’t altered their stance on user choice, though. Several additional search providers will still be available in the default Firefox installation, including DuckDuckGo, Bing, Twitter, Wikipedia, Amazon, and, yes, Google.

Why the change? Mozilla states in their announcement that it’s part of a new strategy: a “local and flexible approach to increase choice and innovation on the Web.” Clearly it’s also a way to generate revenue from more than one source. Over the last ten years, Mozilla has struggled to generate income from partners other than Google. That box appears to have been checked off now.

Mozilla also says that the deals with their new partners “[position] us to innovate and advance our mission in ways that best serve our users and the Web.”The fact that Mozilla and Google work on competing browsers and now mobile operating systems might have had some impact, but probably not all that much. Both Yandex and Baidu (which has been the Firefox default in China for a number of years) make their own browsers, too, and Baidu launched the Baidu Yi mobile OS back in 2011.

How big a deal is this, really? Google has got hundreds of millions of search users using Android phones, Chromebooks, and the Chrome browser. Google.com is still what a lot of people think is “the Internet,” and the only way to get to the web pages they want to visit.

Will they even notice Firefox users leaving? Of course, but Google has managed to claw back search users over the years and they’ll have a response. AdSense may just start pushing a whole lot more Chrome ads to users it detects running Firefox, for example.

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[$atanic $pirit]

Have been an avid user of Firefox for years and considering, it is the most used browser in the world. I will say that Google is about to take a hit, they might not feel the effects just yet, but they are about to lose a big chunk of users due to Firefox.

[Ash]

...And since Google is hiding a lot of search results due to agreements with different companies around the world, even MORE people is switching, Hiding results about ISIS to keep your mind out of the truth and hiding results about Fappening, due to an agreement with iCloud to delete all the results that contain leaked pictures of Celebrities. All for money, Google as a browser is gonna lose a lot of followers!! They are not being what they say they are "Just a browser", they are working with eBay to make your google search appear at first in eBay/amazon, even in Facebook Ads, So shitty. People are moving to BING or Yahoo Browsers, from now on, i guess Google's best way to make money is not gonna be Browser, but Android.

[$atanic $pirit]

They still have adsense, which is their cash cow. Google won't die with this die, but it will lose a market share.

Remember back in early 2000's when Google and Yahoo were at par? Lets see if that scenario is recreated.