Firefox dumps Google in Russia
RUSSIAN-SPEAKING users of Firefox are to be deprived of the wonders of Google as a default search engine and will have rival service Yandex thrust upon them instead.
In his blog on Friday, Mozilla general counsel Harvey Anderson wrote: "Over the past few months, we have listened to feedback, talked with our localisers, studied the trends of our Firefox Yandex builds, and reviewed the Yandex user experience. All this activity led us to the conclusion that our Russian users really wanted direct access to the Yandex search services in official Firefox RU builds."
What he failed to mention was how much wonga Yandex offered Mozilla to effect the change. Since most of the money Mozilla earns from Firefox comes from Google searches, we can only assume Yandex must've offered up a fair few Roubles. µ
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I think you may be wrong here - for Russian-content related searches Yandex performs better than Google. Although not being russian, i am russian native speaker, and use it in my searches as well as google in english searches.
Yandex seems to offer more relevant results, as well as they have better understanding of russian morphology.
Still, google is my main search engine (as english remains primary language for me these days).
Also, just to note. I noticed that for IT-related searches, especially programming, yandex/russian search results provide me with less, but better & quickier solutions to problems, than google, which returns tons of rubbish. Just my 2 "kopeykas".
You can change search settings in Firefox - add your own search engine if you want, if you do not like something.
- Yandex is much better for Russian / IT searches, google is good for everything else.