Yahoo surrenders all search share gains from Firefox deal
A year after Yahoo struck a deal with Mozilla to make its search engine the default in Firefox in the U.S., Yahoo's share of search usage share has fallen to levels lower than before the partnership was inked, according to one Web measurement.
In the last five months, Yahoo's U.S. search share as tracked by Irish metrics vendor StatCounter has has been under the 8.9% recorded in November 2014, the month when Yahoo and Mozilla announced the deal. For October, Yahoo's usage share was 7.6%, a new low. By StatCounter's tally, Yahoo's top mark in the past 12 months was the 10.2% in January 2015.
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