Google help fund Firefox and in return the defualt search box was always Google in Firefox. However, Russian Firefox dumped Google in place of its rival the Russian search engine Yandex.
Russian language search
With Russian language users Yandex is the most popular search engine with 44% using this and Google being number 2 at 24%. I find this interesting as I thought Google dominated every market. I guess not in Russia. I have used Yandex and the search results are radically different from google.ru. I will have to try it out for a while. Of course I need to learn Russian a little better. The real question is will a challenge to Google’s rule come maybe not from Yahoo but a company like Yandex in Russia that has a very high quality search algorithm and they expand into the English world.
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