After six
years of partnership between Firefox and Google which generates 90% of its revenue
by just referring Firefox browser users to search using Google, Mozilla
announces today that they will replace Google and will take Yahoo as its search
engine for mobile devices and desktop computers.
The deal
between two biggest companies will start on December and will last up to five
years. Yahoo will roll out an enhanced new search function to Firefox users,
and will also support Do Not Track
functions in Firefox as a result of the partnership.
Mayers says it will
offer “a clean, modern and immersive
design that reflects input form the Mozilla team”. Financial terms are not
disclose but their partnership is a revenue sharing agreement which includes
certain “guarantees”.
Google has been Firefox's default
browser for ten years, so the new partnership represents a significant opportunity.
Beard wrote. "We believe it will empower more people, in more places with
more choice and opportunity to innovate and ultimately put even more people in
control over their lives online." Mozilla is also setting Yandex as the
default search engine in Russia which opens up the company to work with more
local partners. Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, eBay, Amazon, Twitter and Wikipedia
will continue as alternative search options in the US.
Source: The Verge
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