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Plus, Mozilla's business model is basically done for. With Google providing a Firefox competitor, how long do you really think it will be before Google pulls th
by koenigdavidmj 16y ago
Plus, Mozilla's business model is basically done for. With Google providing a Firefox competitor, how long do you really think it will be before Google pulls their deal with Mozilla to give them money per search via the search box?
- krschultz 16y agoYahoo?
- zppx 16y agohardly, I do not see why google would prefer that a large chunk of the web users do not use its service, google still gets more money on adwords and adsense, I dare say google would pay MS to be the defalt engine on IE if this was possible, for me chrome is much more a vision of how google thinks a browser should be, lean, stable, fast and extensible
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoIt's not a charity donation, they give Firefox money because they give something in return, user eyeballs. There will be a market rate for those eyeballs and indeed I believe they already sell those eyeballs to other search engines in certain locations (Yandex in Russia maybe?).