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A couple of years ago Ubuntu went to Google asking for a revenue sharing deal, Google refused, even though they had done it many times before. Search was going
by 00joe 17y ago
A couple of years ago Ubuntu went to Google asking for a revenue sharing deal, Google refused, even though they had done it many times before. Search was going to be Ubuntu's primary income in the netbook space. At the time Google probably thought they owned search. Its amazing what a little competition will do.
I would love to see Firefox and Safari change their default search to Bing (I would still use Google). Who knows, Google might start getting serious about things like privacy.
- noamsml 17y agoThis makes a whole lot of sense. You can;t really ask for money from Google to keep them as the default search provider unless you're willing to change search providers.
- josefresco 17y agoIf I were Microsoft or even better Yahoo! I'd back up a large dump truck full of cash to entice Firefox to switch the default engine. They prob would never take it, but you never know.
- zandorg 17y agoBut Firefox (Mozilla foundation) make around $100 million a year from Google already.
- tvon 17y agoGoogle does a good job with marketing against Apple with "Open", it would do wonders for MS to market against Google with "Privacy".
- nl 17y agoWhy does anyone think Microsoft protects your privacy any better than Google does? FFS, Google was the ONLY search engine which went to court to protect your searches from collection under COPA: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-146420.html http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-146420.html Microsoft, Yahoo etc just handed their logs over. Gmail's still the only webmail provider which uses SSL by default. There are numerous similar cases. Microsoft can't use "Privacy" to market against Google because they do less to protect your privacy that Google do. (They could argue "we are less competent than Google are at doing things with the information we also collect, so you are less likely to get freaked out when our services appear to read your mind". However, I'm unconvinced that lack-of-competence is a winning marketing strategy. But hey.. it seems to be working for Sarah Palin, so what do I know...)
- lwhi 17y agoI think this is a game of 'what if'. If providing tools to manage privacy gave MS an advantage, I could imagine there's at least a possibility they might supply them.
- roadtrip 17y agoWhy Bing and not DuckDuckGo? It is an excellent search engine, in many cases it has much better search results, and it logs no IP addresses.
- Mark_B 17y agoProbably because your average guy or gal (the people Ubuntu would want to reach out to the most) have ever even heard of it.
- puffythefish 17y agoIt's not like they've heard of Bing either. And, isn't that the point?
- sangaya 17y agoMaybe it's just the Chicago market, but I can't make a single trip in my car without hearing a Bing radio ad. I'm pretty sure they're laying out a fair amount of marketing cash. As another statistically irrelevant point, my mom who believes doing anything on the computer is "downloading" has started using Bing.
- eli 17y agoNo... because DuckDuckGo can't afford to pay them. The announcement omits the part that Google is paying them for the spot on default search.