Tech giant Yahoo will now replace online leader Google as the default search engine on Firefox’s internet browsers in the US.<\/p>\n
Yahoo said it would launch a “clean, modern and immersive design” search engine for Firefox users starting in December.<\/p>\n
The news comes as Google’s arrangement with Firefox maker Mozilla nears an end after a decade-long partnership.<\/p>\n
Market leader Google accounts for 67% of searches from US desktop computers.<\/p>\n
That compares to about 20% for Microsoft and 10% for Yahoo, according to research firm comScore.<\/p>\n
Yahoo chief executive Marisa Mayer called the five-year deal with Firefox “the most significant partnership for Yahoo in five years”.<\/p>\n
“At Yahoo, we believe deeply in search – it’s an area of investment and opportunity for us,” she added.<\/p>\n
Catching Google<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Firefox users in the US will be automatically directed to search results on Yahoo’s website when they enter a subject into the small box that appears at the top of the browser.<\/p>\n Firefox, however, does lag behind Google Chrome in the US browser market.<\/p>\n It accounts for about 10% of browsers on desktop computers, mobiles and tablets compared to over 33% for Google Chrome in October, according to tech data firm StatCounter.<\/p>\n Along with ending its partnership with Google in the US, Mozilla is also directing Firefox to Baidu’s search engine in China and Yandex in Russia.<\/p>\n “Our new search strategy doubles down on our commitment to make Firefox a browser for everyone, with more choice and opportunity for innovation,” said Mozilla chief executive Chris Beard.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, just last month, Google chairman Eric Schmidt had said that the firm’s biggest rival in online search was e-commerce giant Amazon and not competitors like Yahoo.<\/p>\n Globally, Google accounts for about 90% of the online search market.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tech giant Yahoo will now replace online leader Google as the default search engine on Firefox’s internet browsers in the US. Yahoo said it would launch a “clean, modern and immersive design” search engine for Firefox users starting in December. The news comes as Google’s arrangement with Firefox maker Mozilla nears an end after a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":66828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-66826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}