Yahoo on Wednesday sealed what it calls its “most significant partnership” in the past five years, as it nudged aside Google to replace it as the default search engine in the US for the Firefox web browser.
Yahoo and Mozilla, the not-for-profit company behind Firefox, struck a five-year deal as Yahoo tries to become more competitive in the search engine market. The tie-up will coincide with a new design for its search engine that will be launched this December.
Mozilla’s partnership with Google had become increasingly awkward as Google invested in Chrome, a browser that competes with Firefox, and as Mozilla started developing its own operating system that can run smartphones and will probably compete with Google’s Android.
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