When the next version of Firefox hits the streets in Russia, Google -- and not Russia's own Yandex -- will be the default search engine.
That's according to The Next Web, which speculates that though Yandex enjoys a 60 percent share of Russia's search market compared with Google's approximately 26.5 percent, Google may be leveraging its support of Firefox maker Mozilla to convince the company to give it top billing in Firefox version 14.
Google and Firefox struck a three-year deal in December that set Google as the default Firefox search engine outside Russia. Financial details weren't disclosed, but some said at the time that the deal is worth at least $900,000 to Mozilla.
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