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Google and Mozilla remain friends – and competitors

Recent research said Firefox users have higher IQs, so it appears that Google has made a smart decision to renew its search engine deal with Mozilla. The Mozilla Corporation recently announced it “negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement” with Google for the next three years. As a non-profit foundation, Mozilla relies heavily on the income generated by search partnerships. “Under this multi-year agreement, Google Search will continue to be the default search provider for hundreds of millions of Firefox users around the world,” said Gary Kovacs, Mozilla’s chief executive. Alan Eustace, Google’s senior vice president of search, commented: “Mozilla has been a valuable partner to Google over the years and we look forward to continuing this great partnership in the years to come.” The previous deal between Google and Mozilla, which was set to expire in November, had been signed before Google’s Chrome browser gained a presence in the so-called ‘browser war.’ Analysts heavily speculated Google would back out of the deal, as Chrome’s launch and subsequent growth put it in direct competition with Firefox, all while Google remained financially responsible for Mozilla’s survival. However, Whit Andrews, an analyst for Gartner, said Google’s decisions shouldn’t be all that surprising.

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Peer-to-peer search engine to take on Google

Free software activists are set to take on the search heavyweights with their own peer-to-peer search engine . YaCy, – a free search engine – are hoping to usurp the likes of Bing, Google and Yahoo with a ‘new approach’ to search. Instead of using a central server like conventional search engines , YaCy gets results from a network of independent ‘peers’ – users who have downloaded YaCy software. The decentralisation idea behind the new search engine is that no single entity decides on the search results or the order in which results appear, but rather, results are generated from a network of private companies and contributing peer operators. “Most of what we do on the Internet involves search.

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Dell builds smartphones for new Baidu Yi platform

Chinese internet company Baidu is set to partner with PC giant Dell to develop smartphones that will run new software platform, Baidu Yi. The Baidu Yi platform, announced on Friday, has been developed to tackle the highly competitive Chinese mobile market and the software will be installed as standard on the new soon to be released Dell smartphones. Although not an operating system in itself, it has been reported that Baidu Yi is based on Android software. The Guardian reports that Baidu has announced that its own version of Google Android mobile operating system will be upcoming. Seeing as the Chinese search engine has long voiced its displeasure with Google , it’s likely it will take advantage of the fact Android can be altered to remove the default Google search function and apps. Baidu is China’s top search engine with an 80 per cent share of the market, and, not content with only expanding into smartphones, it also plans to develop tablet computers and go head to head with market leaders Apple and Lenovo. Analysts believe this latest partnership could signal a turning point in the fortunes of Dell’s waning tablet business. Dell’s Streak 5 was an Android-based smartphone-tablet hybrid that failed to take off and which was therefore discontinued in the US last month. “Dell has got nothing to lose, they don’t have a big mobile presence, so by partnering Baidu, they will probably get some momentum for their mobile products,” says Garter research director, Sandy Shen

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