820858 - Korea - Remove Yahoo! from Search drop-down (Korea Only)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: ko / Korean, defect)

Description

[Joanne Nagel]

Yahoo! has notified Mozilla that they have closed their Korea operations - it is necessary to remove the Yahoo! icon from the drop-down in Korea only.

Comment 1

[Milos Dinic [:Milos]]

Did they request removal, given their relation with Korea? Also, given our relations with Yahoo, can they do that?

Comment 2

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Regular search still works on http://kr.search.yahoo.com/search, so I guess this isn't firedrill-critical?

Although, suggestions on http://kr.ff.search.yahoo.com/ already hit a DNS error.

Also, is replacing kr.search.yahoo.com with the global yahoo.com an option for us?

Comment 3

[Channy Yun [:channy]]

I guess kr.search.yahoo.com is operated by Yahoo! Korea and some of properties ex: image search are bing and daum.net http://kr.image.search.yahoo.com/search/images?&p=firefox&fr2=piv-omg&fr=sfp

Please check out Yahoo! HQ for this because it was global contract and let me know how to do.

Comment 4

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

I found a public reference: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/19/yahoo-to-pull-out-of-korean-search-by-the-end-of-the-year-its-first-asian-market-exit/. Joanne gave me the same timeline, and we're freed of our contractual obligations here.

Given the timeline, it'd be great if we could get yahoo removed in 18, which we release in the first week of January.

I don't think it's making sense to replace the Korean Yahoo with en-US, given this information.

Does that make sense to you, Channy?

We'd also need to adjust region.properties. I suggest to not add a order.2 as a replacement for yahoo at this point.

Comment 5

[Channy Yun [:channy]]

Okay Axel, once I will patch reverting from ko locale setting for Yahoo! Korea to en-US setting soon.

Comment 6

[Channy Yun [:channy]]

(In reply to Axel Hecht [:Pike] from comment #4)
> 
> We'd also need to adjust region.properties. I suggest to not add a order.2
> as a replacement for yahoo at this point.

You mean to omit order.2 in region.properties?

Comment 7

[Channy Yun [:channy]]

Attachment: Deleting Yahoo! Korea search plugins

Please review my patch for deleting Yahoo! Korea search plugins in beta repository.

Comment 8

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Comment on attachment 691739 [details] [diff] [review]
Deleting Yahoo! Korea search plugins

Review of attachment 691739 [details] [diff] [review]:
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For both browser and mail, I'd drop yahoo completely, that is, not replace yahoo-kr with yahoo. I'm not sure that their results will continue to matter for Korean, independent of the site localization.

::: browser/searchplugins/list.txt
@@ +1,1 @@
> +yahoo

here and ...

::: mail/searchplugins/list.txt
@@ +1,1 @@
> +yahoo

here.

Comment 9

[Channy Yun [:channy]]

(In reply to Axel Hecht [:Pike] from comment #8)
> Comment on attachment 691739 [details] [diff] [review]
> Deleting Yahoo! Korea search plugins
> 
> Review of attachment 691739 [details] [diff] [review]:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> For both browser and mail, I'd drop yahoo completely, that is, not replace
> yahoo-kr with yahoo. I'm not sure that their results will continue to matter
> for Korean, independent of the site localization.

Is there no problem for contract with Yahoo?

Comment 10

[Channy Yun [:channy]]

Attachment: Deleting Yahoo! Korea search plugins v.2.0

resubmit patch

Comment 11

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

(In reply to Channy Yun from comment #9)
> (In reply to Axel Hecht [:Pike] from comment #8)
> > Comment on attachment 691739 [details] [diff] [review]
> > Deleting Yahoo! Korea search plugins
> > 
> > Review of attachment 691739 [details] [diff] [review]:
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > For both browser and mail, I'd drop yahoo completely, that is, not replace
> > yahoo-kr with yahoo. I'm not sure that their results will continue to matter
> > for Korean, independent of the site localization.
> 
> Is there no problem for contract with Yahoo?

Joanne is the person that would tell us if there would be problems. Now that she filed the bug as "remove yahoo", that's what our take is from a partnership point-of-view.

Comment 12

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Comment on attachment 691796 [details] [diff] [review]
Deleting Yahoo! Korea search plugins v.2.0

Review of attachment 691796 [details] [diff] [review]:
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r=me, thanks. Please land on beta and aurora and sign off? As always, land with a check-in comment referencing this bug and my review.

Comment 13

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

CCing Mark so that he has the mail parts in his inbox, too.

Comment 14

[Channy Yun [:channy]]

fixed in
beta: http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n/mozilla-beta/ko/rev/58ccab01f9e0
aurora: http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n/mozilla-aurora/ko/rev/3b7e6d3eda7f