Competition between Yahoo and its competitors has been pretty fierce at times, and any number of onlookers have compared it to a war or a fight. Now it appears as if Yahoo has thrown the cyber equivalent of a "low blow": The company may be trying to trick users into abandoning Firefox and Google. In a post on the UPDATE: Yahoo spokesman Terrell Karlsten provided a statement on the matter in an e-mail to Murdok. "Yahoo! Messenger's update process does not download IE7 to a user's computer," he wrote. "As part of the Yahoo! Messenger update process, people have the choice to download Yahoo! Toolbar, set Yahoo.com as their homepage and set Yahoo! Search as their search engine. This is an industry-wide practice . . . . IE7 is not bundled into the Yahoo! Messenger update process." And an update from Marketing Pilgrim, as well: "Jarrod's added a comment that suggests that IE7 was not added as part of the download, as he first described to us. All other aspects described below are known to be accurate, including changing the default browser to IE, changing the default homepage to Yahoo and changing the default search engine to Yahoo." Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark Murdok: Doug is a staff writer for Murdok for the latest eBusiness news.
Yahoo Dons A Black Hat?
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