Turnaround in Ubuntu: Rick Spencer, a manager of Canonical, announced late January that Yahoo! would become the default search engine in the popular Firefox distribution Linux. It will not ultimately the case: in a mailing list of Ubuntu, the same Rick Spencer said yesterday April 8 that "for the final version [of Ubuntu 10.4], we use Google as default search engine. I asked the Ubuntu Desktop Team to put Google as the default as soon as possible and certainly before April 15. The explanation of this new change remains a mystery: "It was not our intention to flit between suppliers, but circumstances may change unpredictably" indicates only Mr. Spencer. Should we see a discrete reference to a disagreement about the revenue sharing agreement between Ubuntu and Yahoo?
Published January 27, 2010
on a public mailing list of Ubuntu, Rick Spencer, a manager of Canonical (the company that provides support for this Linux distribution), has announced that the engine Firefox search in Ubuntu 10.04, aka Lucid Lynx is now that of Yahoo, rather than Google in the search bar at the top right. The default homepage of Firefox will also become the search page of Yahoo. Rick Spencer said that all this can obviously be changed in a few clicks. It will be possible to put Google as the default. Rick Spencer said that this change is related to the conclusion a revenue sharing agreement with Yahoo more interesting. "These revenues will help to provide developers Canonical and resources to continue the open development of Ubuntu." In his post, Rick Spencer said that Yahoo is respectful of privacy: the engine does not communicate and does not sell personal information collected to third parties and is committed to the end of 2008 to anonymize data after 90 days (9 months at Google), a decision that is being deployed. Bing, the search engine from Microsoft, comes him to commit to destroy (not just anonymized) data collected after 6 months.
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