Comments on: Firefox in Russia dumps Google for Yandex

After soliciting feedback and setting up a business partnership with Yandex, Mozilla opts for a new default search partner.

[George_Marenco]

Nope. It's one of the best search engines out there.

[billmosby]

Yandex has great photos.

[Username8365]

Yandex has the best email service too. Also the their calendar is a great as Google's if not better. I use Yandex daily.

[wildscribe]

Does the mean that Microsoft's Search could become the default search provider in Mozilla in other parts of the world if they outbid Google?

[Vegaman_Dan]

I think anyone could see this coming after Google released Chrome and made it clear they had no need of Firefox or Mozilla's offerings anymore. Hmm.

It's not surprising to see Mozilla do something in return.

[dhavleak]

I don't think that's how these kind of decisions get made.

Mozilla is ultimately a for-profit corporation like any other. They need customer satisfaction, and revenues. And usually the two goals are linked pretty tightly -- this sounds like once such case. Yandex probably just works better for Russian users. So setting Yandex as the default makes Russians have a better user experience, and possibly download/use/install Firefox in larger numbers. Resulting in more search clicks, and more revenues for Firefox.

Just business -- nothing else.

On a related note -- it's possible that this is the beginning of a trend. We already know that Chinese, Koreans, etc. rarely search on Google. I suspect one reason for that could be that Google search results present an overly US-centric view of the web. Or possibly overly english-centric view. If that's indeed the case, we might end up seeing some big, but local search giants come into play.

[0zSpit]

i tried out yandex. it seems to be a quick and thorough browser. although i can't read russian.

[rbiee222]

tanks

[rbiee222]

thank you

[amgdfathy]

good