Comments on: Weekend Breakup: Firefox Leaves Google for Yandex http://www.ginside.com/2009/2635/firefox-leaves-google-for-yandex/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=firefox-leaves-google-for-yandex Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:16:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jonathan Dingman http://www.ginside.com/2009/2635/firefox-leaves-google-for-yandex/#comment-710 Jonathan Dingman Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:01:29 +0000 http://www.ginside.com/?p=2635#comment-710 Joe, <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/20/mozilla_2007_financials/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/20/mozilla_2007_financials/</a> Mozilla generated $67 million in revenue from that little Google search box. And you wouldn't get great results for a few reasons. First, you're searching using English terms, while it's it a Russian search engine. Second, it's most likely using geo-targeting, so again, the search results wouldn't return the same. If you were to search in Russian, you may see more relevant results. But since I'm not Russian and cannot speak Russian, I cannot interpret the quality of the results first-hand. Joe,

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/20/mozilla_2007_financials/

Mozilla generated $67 million in revenue from that little Google search box.

And you wouldn’t get great results for a few reasons. First, you’re searching using English terms, while it’s it a Russian search engine. Second, it’s most likely using geo-targeting, so again, the search results wouldn’t return the same.

If you were to search in Russian, you may see more relevant results. But since I’m not Russian and cannot speak Russian, I cannot interpret the quality of the results first-hand.

]]> By: Joe Casabona http://www.ginside.com/2009/2635/firefox-leaves-google-for-yandex/#comment-709 Joe Casabona Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:47:26 +0000 http://www.ginside.com/?p=2635#comment-709 That's pretty ridiculous. First of all, Yandex doesn't seem like a very good search engine (example: a search for Fox News doesn't even list foxnews.com on the first page), and Google isn't really benefiting from being the featured search in Firefox, is it? It seems like a pretty petty move to me. That’s pretty ridiculous. First of all, Yandex doesn’t seem like a very good search engine (example: a search for Fox News doesn’t even list foxnews.com on the first page), and Google isn’t really benefiting from being the featured search in Firefox, is it? It seems like a pretty petty move to me.

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