Ubuntu's default search engine to change in deal with Yahoo

[Michael Lauzon]

Has anyone seen this yet, here's a brief excerpt:

"Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution,
revealed today that it has established a revenue sharing agreement
with Yahoo. As part of the deal, the Firefox Web browser that is
shipped in Ubuntu will be configured to use Yahoo as the default
search engine.

"Rick Spencer, the leader of Canonical's desktop team, announced the
search engine change today on a public Ubuntu mailing list. The
specific terms of the agreement have not been disclosed. According to
Spencer, the new default will appear in the development version of the
distribution "as soon as reasonably possible" and will be in place in
time for Ubuntu 10.04, which is scheduled for release in April. They
have not indicated whether the change will be applied retroactively to
existing installations of the current stable version, but they have
confirmed that it will be changed for existing users who upgrade from
the current stable version to 10.04."

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/01/ubuntus-default-search-engine-to-change-in-deal-with-yahoo.ars

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