Yahoo sues Mozilla for changing default search to Google

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I've been telling people for years that whoever controls your searches controls your internet and influences your money, your information, and your world view.

http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-mozilla-legal-fight-over-2014-firefox-search-deal-2017-12

Apparently Yahoo was paying Mozilla $375 MILLION dollars per year just to be the default search engine in Firefox. The newest version of Firefox uses Google instead (because Yahoo sucks). Now Yahoo is suing.

It's worth paying $375,000,000 per year just to get Firefox users to use your search engine. Not actually buy anything from you, nor directly give you money in any way. Just search...
 
As a chrome user this doesn't directly matter to me.

Though I would love to see Mozilla to release two builds, one with Yahoo as default, the other with Google as default, and purposely put a bug in the yahoo version to make everything run slower. XD

They can even go as far as adding in a plugin by default that removes search engine ads and replaces it with ads from "https://www.battleforthenet.com/"

Because Yahoo is owned by Verizon, Ajit Pia went from Verizon to FCC, and now "we are at risk of losing the internet"
 
I bet Mozilla could counter sue with the argument that Yahoo's poor service unduely tarnished Mozilla's brand image.

Because it did. I stopped using Firefox or recommending it after that announcement.
 
Yahoo search hasn't worked well since the 1990's when there were only 2 or 3 million sites to crawl. I hate the Evil Empire of Google, but that's where I go when I want the best search results. I use Bing too but will never forget them getting caught using Google behind the scenes and serving it up as if it was their own native results.

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Krynn72 said:
I bet Mozilla could counter sue with the argument that Yahoo's poor service unduely tarnished Mozilla's brand image.

Because it did. I stopped using Firefox or recommending it after that announcement.
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That is exactly what happened. Mozilla countersued saying Yahoo had gotten so bad that people stopped using Firefox because of it.
 
Key line from the article:
Mozilla and Yahoo’s search partnershp was supposed to run through 2019.
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If its in the contract they have every right to sue. Either arrange something else or buy the contract out.
Yes, Yahoo search is total crap and doesnt even remotely compare to Google. I understand why they did it, but there are repercussions if its under contract.

Seems Mozilla is counter-sueing, looks like there is a clause for "Yahoo to not be crap":
We recently exercised our contractual right to terminate our agreement with Yahoo based on a number of factors including doing what’s best for our brand, our effort to provide quality web search, and the broader content experience for our users.
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Bryce W said:
Key line from the article:

If its in the contract they have every right to sue. Either arrange something else or buy the contract out.
Yes, Yahoo search is total crap and doesnt even remotely compare to Google. I understand why they did it, but there are repercussions if its under contract.

Seems Mozilla is counter-sueing, looks like there is a clause for "Yahoo to not be crap":
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Yup. But Mozilla's basis for breaking the contract isn't only that Yahoo sucks, although they do say that in nicer words, but rather that they were bought out by Verizon and somehow that contributes to a permissible invocation of the termination clause.
 
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