From CNET: Yahoo's deal with Firefox maker Mozilla seems to have reversed years of hard times trying to reclaim its search-engine popularity lost to rival Google.
Under the late-2014 deal, US Firefox users see search results from Yahoo instead of Google unless they specifically set their browser's search-engine preference. Because of that, Yahoo searches in the US have increased from 8.6 percent share in mid-November, when the deal was announced, to 10.9 percent two months later, according to Web analytics firm StatCounter.
That share is the highest in five years, StatCounter said. Google, meanwhile, fell from 77.3 percent to 74.8 percent over the two-month period, and Microsoft's Bing search engine rose slightly from 12.1 percent to 12.4 percent.
"Some analysts expected Yahoo to fall in January as a result of Firefox users switching back to Google. In fact, Yahoo has increased US search share by half a percentage point," compared to December, said StatCounter Chief Executive Aodhan Cullen in a statement.
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