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In theory you are correct. However, I wonder how much of Google paying is actually 'we better have a competitor to avoid anti-trust' rather than paying for the

• bzbarsky 6y ago
  > Mozilla should have gotten a smaller amount last time due to falling behind in marketshare That assumes that the amount of money in the market stayed the same. But it didn't: the number of users of the internet grew. So it's possible that the actual benefit to Google of Mozilla's users using their search engine grew. Disclaimer: used to work for Mozilla, not privy to details of the Google agreements.