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Re: [LUG] Ubuntu firefox switching to Yahoo! for advertising cash

 

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 04:39:31PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> Ubuntu! is! on! the! prowl! for! advertising! cash! from! Yahoo!
> (following an ElReg {http://www.theregister.co.uk/} habit of putting !
> at the end of every word of a headline involving Yahoo. Annoying!
> isn't! it!)

To be fair, though, isn't the reason that the upstream default is Google
the result of a deal between Mozilla and Google a few years back?

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