Yahoo!'s Firefox search hook-up pays off as it nicks Google's US clicks Yahoo!’s marriage with Mozilla browser Firefox is winning the search engine clicks, according to one net tracker. Marissa Mayer’s firm in January saw its third-place US search ranging grow to 10.9 per cent, according to StatCounter’s global stats. Yahoo! was still third in market-share volume, but it's now in a slightly …
What is the security message and do you get it with any other browser? Different browsers can very occasionally have differences in the certificate chain that cause security warnings on one but not the other. Alternately, if it's something like Third Party cookies or something there's probably a setting. What's the message? It's probably not a conspiracy.
Some site crashed Firefox this morning and I had to "Refresh" the installation, which wiped out several mods. The first thing I did when it restarted was revert to the old search-engine scheme. Then I deleted Yahoo and Bing from the list and made DuckDuck Go my default. 'Tis a pity the unwashed masses will settle for whatever gruel is placed in front of them and called steak.
The part that annoys me is that it seems to feel the need to reset my default to Yahoo every time firefox updates. As a privacy advocate, I don't like being tracked by Google, but the plethora of extensions I have installed already take care of that. Plus, if privacy was my main concern, I'd go for DDG or Startpage over Yahoo. The fact of the matter is that Google is just indisputably a better search engine when it comes to getting results. I've tried giving Yahoo a chance numerous times but inevitably after a day or two I search for something that Yahoo just fails to find and I try google and it's right there as result #1. Though it gets its fair share of crap, even Bing seems to do a better job.
Its not good for Google that something like the third most popular browser Firefox changes its default engine and this effects its share price. It shows the dependency Google still is on click ads for all its revenue. Google does try to diversify but without success such as buying Motorola which it gave up pretty quickly, then spending years on Google Glass then getting rid of it. Also Android is popular for Google but mainly in the developing world. Google finds it hard to make money out of Android since advertisers are hardly excited by the developing world. Also people in the third world don't usually pay for apps in the same way Apple users do. Maybe Googles self driving car technology will take off an provide some diversity to its revenue.
I use all three of those search engines at different times, and I honestly can't tell the difference between them. Their results are all just as good and just as fast as each other. Google was huge back when it started because all the other options sucked donkey balls, but the only reason they remain dominant now is people have got in the habit of using them. Same with browsers really; Firefox really shook things up by providing a real alternative to IE, but there's now no real difference between Firefox and Chrome, and as cool as it apparently is to hate IE there's really little to set it apart from the others any more. While the people who make browsers and searches love to shout about how much better their product is, the majority of consumers can just close their eyes and pick and random, and get exactly the same results regardless.
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