Yahoo Pays Canonical, Now They’re The Ubuntu Default

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Michael Larabel
Jan 27, 2010

“The second change is that Canonical is changing the default
search engine for Firefox in Ubuntu to Yahoo. Google has always
been the default search engine in Ubuntu’s Firefox, but now it’s
changing to Yahoo beginning with Lucid Lynx.”

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Michael Larabel

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