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

[+] kadu@lemmy.world 80 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 23 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] n3er0o@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months 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 4 points 10 months 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 10 months 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 9 points 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago

Exactly

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

Then your family should switch to DuckDuckGO tho.

My grandparents have used it for years, no problems.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months 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.

[-] yukichigai@kbin.social 1 points 10 months 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.

[-] Whirling_Ashandarei@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

That can't be a real hairstyle.

[-] pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz 16 points 10 months ago

She looks like a cartoon villain.

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 months 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 13 points 10 months 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.

[-] pearlkingstone@lemmings.world 10 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

Was this response generated by AI?

[-] TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

looking at their comment history, probably yeah

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago

Mozilla sucks these days. It needs new management

[+] mintycactus@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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[-] coolasbreeze@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months 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 3 points 10 months 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 1 points 10 months ago

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