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Firefox in Ubuntu Coming Back to Google Search

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We had earlier reports of Ubuntu 10.04 using Yahoo search as the default option on its Ubuntu Linux. One of the two major changes announced by Rick Spencer was,

The default search homepage will change to the Yahoo! search homepage if we change the default search engine preference to Yahoo!. If we do not change the default search preference to Yahoo!, the current Google search page will remain intact as the homepage. This change currently applies to Yahoo! and Google only.

However, now Ubuntu is surprisingly switching back to Google search as the default. This time as well, we have Canonical’s desktop engineering manager,  Rick Spencer detailing this change saying,

Earlier in the 10.04 cycle I announced that we
would be changing the default search provider to Yahoo!, and we
implemented that change for several milestones.

However, for the final release, we will use Google as the default
provider. I have asked the Ubuntu Desktop team to change the default
back to Google as soon as reasonably possible, but certainly by final
freeze on April 15th.

That would not be a surprise as earlier, Rick Spencer said Ubuntu was entering a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo!. Now, we all know here that a similar deal with Google gives much better financial returns. Or as d0od at Omg!Ubuntu says,

it could be that they found most users where switching the search back to Google anyways.

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  1. Indian Art on April 8th, 2010 at 4:37 am #

    Good. That saves me the bother to switch my search engine to Google.

    I believe Google is way better.

  2. G Web | Google Talk on April 8th, 2010 at 5:55 am #

    I do believe most users would automatically switch back to Google as the default search engine. I sure am one of them, and most the people I know are too!

  3. kmcgra on April 9th, 2010 at 6:31 am #

    I just switched mine to google search anyways…like most people.