The Mozilla Foundation decided a few months ago to change the default searching machine from Google to Yahoo and it looks like their decision has started to have an impact on Google, and especially in the US.
Changing the default search engine might seem like a no-brainer for giants like Google, especially when users can change it the way it's always been with a single click. Το πρόβλημα όμως έρχεται από τους χρήστες που δεν αλλάζουν τίποτα στον υπολογιστή τους. Δεν χρησιμοποιούν add-ons, do not customize browsers, and certainly do not make any changes to the default settings.
Firefox is not the number one browser in the world, but it still exists on too many computers. So when big changes are made it is impossible to go unnoticed.
What many users do not know is that too much money is being played online. Just a few years ago, when the foundation Mozilla said it would have Google as the default search engine, managed to get tens of millions of dollars from the company.
Now that Google has acquired its own browser, it does not want to pay for a privileged position in Firefox. Let's see, however, what the company has made.
According to a related publication of businesswire.com, StatCounter Global Stats reports that in December Google had 75,2% in US search quotes. Bing follows with an 12,5% and Yahoo with 10,4%. So there is a drop of 2% for Google and an increase of 4% for Yahoo. The percentage may seem small, but if you can convert it to the money lost from the ads, it seems that Google is the big loser.
The same comparison should be done within a year to show more accurately the implications of the Mozilla decision. Until then, it looks like Yahoo is gaining ground.
