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

[Myles Braithwaite]

This might have something to do with Google's Chromium OS, Canonical
is helping them with development, and there might be some type of
legal reason.

Or simply Yahoo is paying more.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:47 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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