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Google Search Share Drops After Firefox Switch

         

bill

12:31 am on Jan 14, 2015 (gmt 0)

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http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/07/google-search-share-drops-after-firefox-switch/ [blogs.wsj.com]

Google Search Share Drops After Firefox Switch

Google is already feeling the effects from the recent loss of a search deal, as a potentially larger deal looms.

Market researcher Statcounter says Google’s share of U.S. search traffic, excluding mobile devices, declined to 75.3% in December from 77.5% in November, after the maker of the Firefox browser made Yahoo the default search engine. Yahoo's share of search traffic excluding mobile devices grew to 10%, from 8%.