Andre Yoskowitz
27 Jan 2010 14:11
The popey.com blog has reported today that all new versions of Ubuntu Lucid will come with Firefox using Yahoo! as the default search engine instead of Google after the companies struck a deal.
Canonical, the group behind the Lucid releases, made the revenue sharing deal as a way to generate income for the company and its developers.
Obviously, if you hate Yahoo or just prefer Google, Bing, Ask, etc., you can switch the search engine back, but Canonical will not see any of the money from your searches. The browser start page will also feature Yahoo instead of Google now, but that is easily changed as well.