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- Bold move: Yahoo will soon be Firefox's default search engine
- For the first time you can now search through every tweet ever
- Beats Music will reportedly come part and parcel with iOS
| Bold move: Yahoo will soon be Firefox's default search engine Posted:  There were a ton of fledgling search engines when the web was young - remember Ask Jeeves, or the one with the dog? - but over time Google emerged as the top choice for basically everyone. (Except except for Microsoft, although that's a different story.) That does, however, include Mozilla, makers of Firefox, which has always used Google as its default search engine - until now, that is. It turns out Mozilla and Yahoo have signed a deal that will see Yahoo's search engine replace Google by default in Firefox for at least the next five years. Good for the gooseThe switch goes into effect in December, according to the Mozilla Blog. Mozilla CEO Chris Beard wrote proudly that the company popularized browser-integrated search and has offered a number of search options over the last decade, but this year Google's contract came up for renewal. "In evaluating our search partnerships, our primary consideration was to ensure our strategy aligned with our values of choice and independence, and positions us to innovate and advance our mission in ways that best serve our users and the Web," Beard wrote. He added that Yahoo's strategy "stood out from the rest." A shocking twistNow Yahoo will be the default search engine in the US, while it will vary in other countries. Google remains a pre-installed alternative in the browser. Yahoo search will have a new interface in Firefox (in a shocking twist, it looks exactly like Google), and will also support Do Not Track, Beard wrote. That all sounds fine, but truthfully it remains to be seen whether this really helps Firefox users, or just Mozilla and Yahoo. |
| For the first time you can now search through every tweet ever Posted:  Twitter has opened the floodgates and is now letting you search through anything that's ever been posted on the 140-character social network. That's hundreds of billions of tweets since Twitter launched in 2006, the company says. Up to this point Twitter's search index has parsed through mainly recent tweets, but now it includes them all - for better or for worse. Twitter Search Infrastructure Engineer Yi Zhuang elucidated a number of different uses for the new expanded search, from tracking historic elections to revisiting entire conferences, in a blog post. Let's be honest, though: you're going to use it to look up every embarrassing thing your friends ever tweeted, and godspeed you on that mission. |
| Beats Music will reportedly come part and parcel with iOS Posted:  The Beats Music streaming service will reportedly join the likes of Newsstand, Maps and Stocks as a default iOS app next year. Apple acquired Beats in May, and although they've yet to do anything meaningful with the brand just yet that will soon change, reports the Financial Times. Beats Music will be bundled with an upcoming iOS update as early as March, the site says. Well it Beats iTunesApple hasn't made any official statements on its plans for Beats Music, but iTunes sales slowed this year and it's clear that the iPhone maker is plotting something. Word in October was Apple will merge Beats Music with iTunes, which already offers limited streaming music with iTunes Radio, and the FT agrees that that's likely. In addition Apple has reportedly been courting record labels in an effort to slash the streaming music subscription price in half to just $5 (about £3.20, AU$5.80) a month. |
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