Firefox and Google are divorced in Russia
Mozila has recently announced that Google will no longer be the default search provider for the russian localized version of Mozila Firefox.
According to Harvey Anderson, VP and general counsel of Mozilla Corporation:
“In October, we asked for feedback on creating a deeper partnership with Yandex, one in which we would make Yandex search features the default in our Firefox Russian language builds. Over the past few months, we have listened to feedback, talked with our localizers, studied the trends of our Firefox Yandex builds, and reviewed the Yandex user experience. All this activity led us to the conclusion that our Russian users really wanted direct access to the Yandex search services in official Firefox RU builds”.
I wonder how would this new relationship affect Mozila, as it’s main revenue comes from Google. Let’s wait and see.
