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Ubuntu Moves To Yahoo For Default Firefox Search

Posted by kdawson on from the can-you-say-bing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Starting in Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx release, Firefox's default search engine will be switched from Google to Yahoo. The switch was made after Canonical 'negotiated a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo.' Google will still be available as a choice. Since Yahoo search is now powered by Microsoft's Bing, this would seem to mean that Microsoft will be paying people for using Ubuntu."

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  1. Re:It was nice while it lasted by kangsterizer · · Score: 0, Troll

    clearly the poster is one of these 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000 humans who don't have any idea of what they're doing or why they're even living in this world;
    let me explain. he's not using ubuntu because it's good, or easy, or whatever. nope.
    he's using ubuntu because people said it's cool. he doesn't care if its good or not, and worse, doesn't even realize it himself.
    having yahoo default deal makes it uncool (because, google is cool, yahoo is uncool)
    then he has no choice, but to dump ubuntu

    stupid, retarded, but true. and it happens for a million of other things that have no relation to linux or computers, every day, all the time.

    i for one welcome the retarded sheep human society.

  2. Re:Doesn't matter by Foredecker · · Score: 0, Troll

    You mean you are looking at Ubuntu. Ubuntu updates and upgrades come from Ubuntu - not Microsoft.

    Don't make stuff up....

    -Foredecker

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    Jibe!