{"id":1507,"date":"2010-02-19T12:41:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T11:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2010-02-19T12:46:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T11:46:03","slug":"default-search-engine-in-ubuntu-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/default-search-engine-in-ubuntu-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Default search engine in Ubuntu Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ubuntuLogo_200x52.png?resize=200%2C52&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ubuntu Logo\" title=\"The Ubuntu Operating System\" width=\"200\" height=\"52\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1516\" \/><\/a>Ubuntu will be switching their default search engine from Google to Yahoo in the next release (v10.04) because they have struck a deal where they will get a cut of the money made whenever a user clicks on a advert after doing a search. The only reason that this is interesting is that <strong>Yahoo search is powered by Microsofts Bing search engine<\/strong> which brings up some interesting questions: On the positive side, Microsoft will be paying for free software development, but on the negative side, Ubuntu users will be making money for Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Tuxradar did a <a href=\"http:\/\/tuxradar.com\/content\/openballot-ubuntu-yahoo-evil\">open ballot<\/a> to gather peoples thoughts on the subject. They discussed it on <a href=\" http:\/\/tuxradar.com\/content\/podcast-season-2-episode-1 \">episode 1 of season 2<\/a> of their podcast and they even mentioned me at 35:23. I was making the point that the default search engine of Firefox is moot because many people are switching to Google&#8217;s Chrome browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu will be switching their default search engine from Google to Yahoo in the next release (v10.04) because they have struck a deal where they will get a cut of the money made whenever a user clicks on a advert after doing a search. The only reason that this is interesting is that Yahoo search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,30,45,49,26],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techjournal","tag-google","tag-microsoft","tag-open-source","tag-shameless-self-promotion","tag-ubuntu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}