"Yahoo! poaching Google users?"

Firefox lets you choose your toolbar search engine by selecting from a list, but Google is pre-selected as your "first choice." Via a post on Digg, it looks like Yahoo is striking out at this defaulting and suggesting to any Firefox user who loads the Yahoo homepage: "Search with Yahoo! right from your browser." Screenshot of the offending rolldown layer below.



If you note, the layer is of course coded on the Yahoo homepage, but looks like a merging of grey and rounded-edge Firefox system design and the Yahoo purple. But the real question is, what on earth is that yellow jokester being stroked by a Mickey Mouse hand?

Including a popup on the Yahoo page is quite the giant step in Yahoo's attempt to reclaim search. I'm bowled over, frankly.