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

Tyler Aviss tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Jan 27 17:31:17 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:14 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> | From: Michael Lauzon <mlauzon-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>
> | "... 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.
>
> This is as complicated / weird as the branding of Olympic athletes.
>
> As I understand it, Firefox is largely funded by Google in return for
> Google being the default search engine for Firefox browsers.
>
> Now Ubuntu is switching Firefox it ships to Yahoo (Bing?), Ubuntu will
> get money.  Is this instead of Firefox getting money?  The article
> suggests that Ubuntu was already getting money from Google (just not
> enough) so maybe this does not affect Firefox funding.
>
> But wait.  Dell's Ubuntu (bundled with vanishingly few products)
> already used Yahoo and the revenue goes to Dell.
>
> Next step: I will sell my desktop search-engine rights.  Who will bid
> the highest?
>
> I hope that Firefox continues to have sufficient funding.
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Maybe the firefox team will volley back at Ubuntu for modifying their
defaults, causing it to be renamed something else. Ice...wea... nah,
that would never happen.
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