Mozilla Deal Propels Yahoo’s U.S. Search Share to Five-Year High

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Yahoo recently replaced Google as the default search provider for Firefox in the U.S.

In November, Yahoo and Mozilla reached an understanding to make Yahoo Search the default search provider for the latter’s Firefox browser in the United States and the results are already out there for all to see. According to the latest U.S. search data from web analytics provider Statcounter, December saw Bing-powered Yahoo Search finish with 10.4 percent share of the U.S. search market, a significant increase from the 8.4 percent share it held at the start of the month. This is also Yahoo’s highest U.S. search share since 2009.
If Statcounter’s data is accurate then it is clear that Yahoo’s gains in December came at the expense of Google, which the former replaced as the default search provider for Firefox 34 users in the States. In December, Google’s market share fell from a shade over two percentage points to reach 75.2 percent, its lowest US share since Statcounter first began keeping track of global search statistics in July 2008.
But with Mozilla itself having considerable trouble retaining its existing share in the browser market, this sudden spurt in Yahoo’s search share is unlikely to become a long-term trend.
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