Yahoo wins Asian Firefox search slot

John Battelle may have found quite some fame with his Google book "The Search" but he is still blogging actively on a variety of interesting topics surrounding search. We just noticed an interesting snippet from the end of last week in which he notes the Yahoo! has displaced Google as the default search engine in new, Asian versions of the Firefox browser.

We had already noted how Alibaba.com's Jack Ma, newly in charge of Yahoo's China business, has described the coming battle as focused on search. This Firefox decision to go with Yahoo! is a small skirmish in the build up to the big fight but we shall follow it all with interest.

P.S. I switch back and forth between Safari on the Mac and Firefox. On my PC, Firefox is now the default browser, a move which has reduced Spyware infections by a factor of around 20.