Mozilla is dropping Google as their default browser

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   OldRosesposted 9 years ago

   The big news in search engines today is that Mozilla is dropping Google as their default search engine when the contract ends in December.  They have signed a 5 year deal with Yahoo Search: http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/19/7250 … ch-engine- .  Could this mean the end of our search traffic woes?  Most of my traffic now comes from Pinterest, Yahoo and Bing.  I've become virtually invisible to Google.  Looks in January, there will be more searches done in Yahoo.  I'm looking forward to an uptick in traffic.

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      Hooks and Needlesposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      It will be interesting to see how it works out.

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   CuAllaidhposted 9 years ago

   Doubt it will mean much, IE's default search engine is Bing, but no one uses bing.

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      OldRosesposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I have to agree with you there.  Personally, I despise Bing.  The search results are horrible.

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         neosurkposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         Actually, Bing and Yahoo give the exactly same search results, since 2009.
         
         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing#Yahoo.21_search_deal

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            OldRosesposted 9 years agoin reply to this

            Interesting!  I didn't know that.  But it makes sense because as I pointed out in my original post, my traffic is coming from both Bing and Yahoo these days as well as Pinterest.

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   neosurkposted 9 years ago

   I do like the Bing's interface too, although don't use it regularly. I am also tired of seeing only Pinterest and Blogspot blogs in Google search results. May be we can get some traffic love from this deal. Thank you Caren for posting this.

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      OldRosesposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      You're welcome!  I have my fingers crossed that we will start seeing more traffic in January.

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   paradigmsearchposted 9 years ago

   I wonder how many people actually use the browser default search engine, I certainly never have.

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      OldRosesposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I work in IT and I can attest to two facts:
      1.  Most of my users don't know which search engine they are using or even what a search engine is.
      2.  99% of my users have no idea that they can change the default search engine in their browser.

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         paradigmsearchposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         That is interesting. I'd been under the illusion the general population was more technically advanced than that. No wonder my bookmarks hub was such a flop. Live and learn I guess.

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         CuAllaidhposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         I work in IT as well, and while I agree, I will point out that very few people use the search bar at all but rather type in google.com by default and ignore the built in search functionality of their browser.

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