Yahoo authorities recently made a deal with the Mozilla Firefox browser that will allow Mozilla to use Yahoo instead of Google as its default search engine in the U.S.
The change was announced by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, according to The Guardian.
Yahoo and Mozilla signed up this partnership which will be effective from December and the term of this agreement is five-year, which Mayer said is the company's most significant in five years.However, Yahoo authority did not disclose any information about how much money they gave to Mozilla to make this agreement. Though they say some of its profits to be shared with the guarantee was signed in some particular issues.
Another part of the agreement between the companies will have Yahoo support Firefox's Do Not Track feature, which prevents the online activity of users from being tracked for advertising uses.
According to the Guardian, a spokesman for Mozilla told that "In most European countries, including the UK, Firefox users will not see a change [from Google as the default search provider]. "In the US, Yahoo will become the default search, Baidu in China and Yandex in Russia."
Before making a deal with Yahoo, Google had a three-year contract with Mozilla. The contract with Google is going to expire soon. The Google-Firefox deal, first made in 2004 and since renewed repeatedly, Google paid $280 million to be Firefox's browser.
A statistic of analyst firm comScore's shows, Yahoo currently accounts for 10 per cent of US search marketplace, compared to 67 per cent for Google and 19 per cent for Microsoft Bing,
According to Tech Times, the chairwoman for Mozilla, Mitchell Baker told that the negotiations with Yahoo were much simpler compared to those with Google, which is now in direct competition with Mozilla with its attempts to lure users away from Firefox and into Chrome.
