Firefox lost users during “failed” Yahoo search deal, says Mozilla CEO : firefox

[+] kadu@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

I have no idea what's keeping Yahoo in business.

[-] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acquisitions and spinoffs. The current company is from 2021. Among other things they own AOL, Engadget, and TechCrunch.

[-] n3er0o@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Yahoo is pretty big in Japan. They offer a service called Yahoo Auctions Japan that is pretty similar to ebay.

[-] BM_Bourguignon@mastodon.social 3 points 1 year ago

@n3er0o
Yeah, Yahoo! is pretty popular in Japan. I was really surprised when I went to Japan in 2016. Before that, I thought that Yahoo! was dead as a corp. I couldn't be more wrong...
@Sabata11792

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Momentum, I think. Lots of people who have yahoo email addresses (possibly from when they had integrated ISP emails, do they still have that?) and don't want to switch.

[-] thomask@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

I’d rather go to the local library and ask the clerk for a search term

Sounds kind of relaxing tbh

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

"Greetings, I would like to know more about this 'ligma'. Yes I can wait. Yep, thanks, took a ticket."

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly

[-] yukichigai@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

That's Bing now. Bing back in the day was bad. Not Yahoo bad, but still bad.

Separate of that though, Yahoo search is just bad so I do believe this. There are other viable options and were a few back in 2017; Yahoo was not one of them.

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

But like how hard is it to change the default search, 3 clicks? Then you're done for life on every computer or phone you ever use, as long as sync is set up.

[-] 30p87@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Then your family should switch to DuckDuckGO tho.

My grandparents have used it for years, no problems.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago

Also, !Bang notation is so damn useful and one of the best things about DDG

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Even then, changing the default search engine wouldn't be enough reason to switch browsers. Otherwise I would find a browser that defaults to duck duck go.

[-] Whirling_Ashandarei@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

That can't be a real hairstyle.

[-] pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

She looks like a cartoon villain.

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a Firefox user I prefer Kagi. Google is the antithesis of everything Firefox is supposed to stand for. That said, Yahoo has always been horrible and, out of the options that ARE available, Yahoo was easily the absolute worst.

[-] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Kagi is quite nice, but I don’t know if it justifies the cost compared to the alternatives (DDG/Brave search)

[-] TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 12 points 1 year ago

IMO DDG, Yahoo and Bing all sucks when it comes to anything complicated. I can see why general public would be put off by this. If they can't figure on how to switch Search engines, then don't really care about any Privacy.

[-] coolasbreeze@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's 100% because of the payments. They could use DDg without issues. But to be honest Firefox uses basically rely on Google funding and that in turn allows Google to continue to monopolies search. Deal with the devil but not sure of there is a real alternative.

[-] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

DDG doesn't really compare to Google search results. I can hardly find anything I'm looking for when it's pretty much always on the first page of Google

[-] dadaredone@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

DDG sucks when it comes on regional searches or bing in particular, searches related to education is shit if you are still studying.

[+] mintycactus@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -4 points 1 year ago

Mozilla sucks these days. It needs new management

[+] pearlkingstone@lemmings.world -21 points 1 year ago

I believe Mozilla's decision to part ways with Yahoo after the "failed" search deal was a smart move. User trust and satisfaction should always be a priority, and I hope they continue to focus on delivering a top-notch browsing experience to regain lost users.

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 year ago

Was this response generated by AI?

[-] TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

looking at their comment history, probably yeah