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Google wanted Firefox to succeed as much as Mozilla needed the money basically, they backed them as a standard-compliant, opensource alternative to IE, they eve
by yanw 16y ago
Google wanted Firefox to succeed as much as Mozilla needed the money basically, they backed them as a standard-compliant, opensource alternative to IE, they even advertised them on the homepage back then.
- sam_in_nyc 16y agoWhy would Google continue to pay them for search referrals?
- petervandijck 16y agoCoz 1. It's traffic, which is good for Google (they pay others for traffic too) 2. It's supporting a browser that's non-IE, which is also good for them, strategically.