Specifically, these amendments concern the Firefox browser the next version of Ubuntu (10.04 LTS - Lucid Lynx), scheduled for April. The start page should thus be associated with the search defaults configured by the user. Thus, if users' changing for Yahoo, the homepage will also be modified with a Yahoo search box, "says Spencer.
Yahoo! will move elsewhere as a search engine by default, an initiative that does nothing to change this setting in the program options. Specifically, "Canonical has negotiated a contract to share revenue with Yahoo!. For the company founded by Mark Shuttleworth, it is diversifying its financial strategy to ensure greater pace of system development.
Remember that Google and Mozilla maintain a similar partnership. Advertising revenues remitted by Google up almost 85% of total income of the foundation ($ 57 million in 2006). Note also the irony of the situation as if some advocates of free system Ubuntu will choose to keep Yahoo! as a search engine by default, results returned may soon be calculated by Microsoft technology.
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