Google's share of the U.S. search market fell to 75.2 percent for the month of December, down to its lowest share since 2009.
Yahoo appears to have gained most of what Google lost, moving to 10.4 percent share, its highest share in the last six years, as well.
In stark change happened almost immediately after Mozilla replaced Google with Yahoo as the default search engine for their ... [ read the full article ]
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I initially opted to stick with FF despite their defect to Yahoo (of course I changed my default search engine back to Google) but with this news I'm finally moving to Chrome.
The only thing FF had going for it IMO was NoScript. I'm really going to miss that. :-( Suggestions please! (yes I've tried ScriptSafe; has anyone tried HTTP Switchboard???)
I use bing because I like to click on a link, then another, then another, then another, to get more little tidbits of information. I don't like to have it all available to me all at once. j/k
As others have said, I immediately switched back to Google as my default search engine. Maybe it is just familiarity with the search results, but it seems to me that I find what I am looking for with Google much quicker than the other search engines. DuckDuckGo may be the better alternative if you are concerned about privacy.
