Comments on: Ubuntu Switches to Yahoo! Search … Kinda

By: Murat

Murat — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:59:14 +0000

They can also make it country specific.Yandex for Russia for example.Google is not on every countries number one search engine list

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:02:56 +0000

I made no changes to the fonts. It’s a default Lucid install in VirtualBox.

By: 6205

6205 — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:01:13 +0000

What kind of font setup are you using on those images? They look better than current Karmic default Sans 10 with supixel hinting. Will have Lucid different fontconfig?

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:49:35 +0000

What about Mozilla’s deal with Google?
Mozilla did the heavy lifting, they should get the search cash.

By: Joe Bloux

Joe Bloux — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:53:02 +0000

If you read closer… “A closer look seems to show that Canonical has not abandoned their partnership with Google at all and still sends a partner ID along with your search results.” it would appear they may make money either way, provided their partnership with Google involves click through revenue.

By: S-kayrstmst

S-kayrstmst — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:40:15 +0000

So if people (just like me) are switching to Google Canonical will not make any money at all. I think Canonical doesn’t understand that majority of Ubuntu-users dislike Microsoft and anything proved to be in same ecosystem.

I don’t know what Linux Mint is doing but if they gonna stay with Google i more than ever will recommend newbies to try Linux Mint than Ubuntu. Personally i have lot of chance to try several other distros.

By: jall

jall — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:16:40 +0000

“…and Canonical makes money.”
Canonical makes money only for searches that will be done using Yahoo search engine. If all of the users switch there will be no money for Canonical.

“As long as they give you a choice…”
That is one single most important idea in Linux.

By: Michael Hodgins

Michael Hodgins — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:13:38 +0000

It really makes little difference. Linux users are the kind of people who know how to change their default search engine.