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Mozilla Ditches Google Default Search for Yahoo

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Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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Mozilla is making some important changes to the Firefox internet browser and they have decided that it was time to change the default search engine option from Google to different alternatives, including Yahoo.

The default search engine in the Firefox browser might not seem like a big deal, but that's not true. The fact that Google has been the default search option in Firefox for the last 10 years had made Mozilla millions of dollars. Back in 2011, Google was offering Mozilla a $300 million (€239 million) per year deal to remain the default search engine, and now that deal has ended.

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