In October, we asked for feedback on creating a deeper partnership with Yandex, one in which we would make Yandex search features the default in our Firefox Russian language builds. Over the past few months, we have listened to feedback, talked with our localizers, studied the trends of our Firefox Yandex builds, and reviewed the Yandex user experience. All this activity led us to the conclusion that our Russian users really wanted direct access to the Yandex search services in official Firefox RU builds. As a result, we’re planning on setting Yandex as the default search provider for the Firefox 3.1 Russian locale builds (these changes should go into the current beta for testing). This means that, upon download and launch, the Firefox Start Page for RU locale builds will use Yandex for search queries, and the search bar will default to Yandex. Implementation details are in bug #471561 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471561).
Thanks for the help.
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Thai Brothers’ Sharing Blog » Blog Archive » Firefox in Russia dumps Google for Yandex // January 9, 2009 at 10:52 pm
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09-01-2009 Summary : Bobica Alexandru // January 9, 2009 at 11:17 pm
[...] – Utilizatorii ruşi de Mozilla Firefox vor avea surpriza ca în scurt timp să aibă ca şi default search engine în browser pe concurentul motorului de căutare Google, şi anume Yandex. Detalii puteţi afla din materialul postat pe blogul lui Harvey Anderson. [...]
rahul pandey // January 10, 2009 at 8:27 am
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Google and Firefox - Parting their Ways | Web Tools and Tips // January 10, 2009 at 8:29 am
[...] Anderson, VP and General Counsel of Mozilla Corporation has announced on his blog that Firefox has replaced Google as the default search engine from their web browser by Yandex. But [...]
Firefox in Russia dumps Google for Yandex | Webtrendblog.com // January 10, 2009 at 5:45 pm
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Maxime // January 10, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Oh, no!!!
Yandex search engine is completely miserable in the search outside Russian, in English particularly. Yandex has much less advantage over Google in Russian rather terrible lost in English. See http://analyzethis.ru/ for comparison.
Freetracking.org » Firefox in Russia dumps Google for Yandex // January 10, 2009 at 7:33 pm
[...] engine in Russian Firefox, but it concluded that Yandex was the better choice, according to a blog post by Mozilla General Counsel Harvey Anderson on [...]
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[...] Anderson, Mozilla General Counsel, wrote that after research efforts were conducted that Mozilla came, “to the conclusion that our [...]
Rohan Dhruva // January 10, 2009 at 10:27 pm
This post lacks references. Please link to the said “feedback” and surveys, otherwise this is just another business deal, not a change caused about by the general Russian public. So stop pretending that it is the latter, unless you can back up your statements. Also, here by “you”, I don’t mean the author of this blog post, I mean all the people who were involved with bringing about this change.
For all we know, this change may even be due to sour feelings of Mozilla w.r.t Google Chrome. (No, really, that *is* just a hypothesis)
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مدونة عبقرينو التقنية // January 11, 2009 at 8:32 pm
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Danny Sullivan // January 12, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Is Yandex also paying Firefox for this partnership?
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[...] آن خواهد شد. هاروی اندرسون ، مشاور ارشد موزیلا در مطلبی که در وبلاگ خود منتشر کرد گفت : در طی ماه های گذشته ، ما [...]
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onegr // January 26, 2009 at 9:52 am
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[...] Mozilla’s Harvey Anderson announced via his blog that initial research of Firefox RU users indicated that “Russian users really wanted direct access to the Yandex search services in official Firefox RU builds” and that the default search engine would be changed from Google to Russia based Yandex.ru in the next Firefox release [...]
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[...] Anderson, Mozilla General Counsel, wrote that they research lot on it and “All this activity (Research) led us to the conclusion that [...]
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