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Re:Mozilla Research Projects by jMyles on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @12:17PM (#8793564)
Does it still have a relationship with Google?
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Re:Mozilla Research Projects by imglorp on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @04:28PM (#8794595)
For a while, the Thunderbird default search engine was pegged to Bing. There was no easy way to change it. A marketer came to the bugzilla to explain they would not fix it for business reasons.
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Re:Mozilla Research Projects by tinalumfoil on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @05:19PM (#8794726)
Which seems backwards because before Chrome, Google would pay Mozilla pretty large amounts of money [0] just to have their search as an easily-changeable default.

[0] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398046,00.asp

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Re:Mozilla Research Projects by teod on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @01:00PM (#8793772)
I'm not sure if it still has relationships with Google, but it did form a partnership with Yahoo recently [https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/11/yahoo-and-mozilla-for...].
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Re:Mozilla Research Projects by digi_owl on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @02:35PM (#8794217)
They diversified. I Think they provide Yahoo search by default most places, Yandex in Russia, and some other one in China.
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Re:Mozilla Research Projects by soapdog on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @09:02PM (#8795184)
Yahoo! is the default for U.S.A. Yandex for Russia, Baidu for China. All the others default to Google. And yes, you can always change the default search engine to your preferred one in the preferences.
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