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

[Tyler Aviss]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Michael Lauzon <mlauzon-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> Michael Lauzon
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There seems to be a really big push against google search lately. MS
teaming up with apple, etc.
As for myself, I *prefer* google, so Canonical can go do whatever they
want, I'll just change it back. Not really a big issue unless they're
forcing yahoo and removing other options
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