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Firefox drops Google as global default search provider, switches to Yahoo
2014-11-20 14:21:05| Extremetech
For almost the entirety of Firefox's 12-year history, Mozilla -- and thus Firefox -- has been primarily funded by a lucrative deal with Google. Since 2004, Google has been paying Mozilla around $100 million per year -- or about 85% of Mozilla's total income -- to keep Google as the default search provider. Today, that finally changes: Google is out and Yahoo is in.
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