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Search Leaders Accommodate Firefox |
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 16 July 2005 |
The growing band of Mozilla users have had their
options enhanced by both leading Search Engine
Operators, Yahoo and Google.
According to OneStat.com the traffic management
operation, The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox web
browser now has 8.69 percent of the market although
Microsoft's Internet Explorer is still king with 86.36
percent. As Firefox takes market share, it becomes
more important for the search operators to work with
it - it would seem a pity to exclude the May user
number of over 50 million from access.
Wednesday then, Yahoo updated its Desktop Search to
support Thunderbird, the Mozilla open-source mail
client so that Thunderbird users on Windows XP can use
it - they also announced a simplified user interface
and tab system for Desktop Search. A Yahoo spokeswoman
said that the changes are based on user feedback.
Yahoo Desktop Search allows users to search their hard
drives, including e-mails, attachments, documents,
music, images and videos, as well as their Address
Books and Messenger archives.
Yahoo updated its Instant Messenger last month to make
it compatible with Firefox and earlier this month,
Google made a search toolbar available following
Yahoo's launched in February.
Along with the accommodation of Thunderbird, Mozilla
released security patches to fix some unspecified bugs
and new version of the browser which they recommend
all users upgrade to.
Reuben Dunn
Jump2Top.Com
Search Engine Optimization Company
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