Hey Firefox - Let Us Pick Our Own Search Engine

http://searchengineland.com/080606-103041.php

by johns • 18 years ago

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cbryan• 18 years ago

As much as choice is a good thing, I don't think that the default should change from being Google. Mozilla gets a huge amount of money from Google for directing searches there. The money they make by doing this lets this great open source browser keep making headway.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/23/google-continues-to-ban...

If you want a default search other than Google, you can certainly change it. Just a quick trip to about:config.

http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2008/01/13/change-default-search...

josefresco9• 18 years ago

Why don't they go the full distance and build their own Amazon affiliate ID into Amazon searches? I'm sure that will help fund their open source browser project even better.

/sarcasm

andreyf3• 18 years ago

Why sarcasm? Who is anyone to tell an OSS project how to raise money with the software they are giving away free?

ashu• 18 years ago

and what if they do? if you hate it so much, fork it and use / distribute your own version. nobody prevented you from doing it.

josefresco9• 18 years ago

I'm going to have to say I agree with the author, Mozilla should take the moral high ground here and not default to Google but ask the user during install or the first time they use the search box.

Not including Live.com seems somewhat petty on their part (or greedy if they have deals with Y! too)

simonw2• 18 years ago

Mozilla make tens of millions of dollars out of that Google search box every year. That's some expensive moral high ground you're asking for there!

DenisM3• 18 years ago

That's why it's called "moral high ground" instead of "most profitable way to sell out".

xirium• 18 years ago

When a people values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. -- Dwight D Eisenhower's, inaugural address, Tue 20 Jan 1953.

jdanieli2• 18 years ago

I'm not sure how much overlap there is between people who use live.com and people who use Mozilla's Firefox. I'd assume that people who use live.com use internet explorer because they apparently have some sort of preference to Microsoft products. But, since Google is the most popular search engine on the internet, the vice-versa isn't true, meaning that an IE user wont automatically prefer live.com. Logically speaking, it would be a bad product that doesn't use the most popular search engine as their default configuration. I'd have more issue with this if Firefox had chosen Yahoo! over Google.

josefresco9• 18 years ago

Hey Firefox - Let Us Pick Our Own Search Engine

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