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Hum, never though of it this way. It also make business sence since Yandex strength is probably the handling of complex language in information retrieval. I always though the angle was to then address middle-east market with better indexing/search of Arabic content. Now, it's not impossible there is a political angle to it.

This may be, but what has it to do with Firefox?

Doesn't Mozilla decides for itself, which default it sets?

Is Yandex paying Mozilla to be the default for Turkey?

That's usually how these deals come about. No figures were revealed in the press release, but it should eventually become public in their yearly IRS filing.

Well, probably. Yandex has been active in the market here in Turkey, offering its services including a map with street views. They also put up ads on TV and billboards.

Doesn't DuckDuckGo use Yandex's search results?