> Chrome is a loss leader Alternatively: making a browser means you can choose the default search engine, and this is valuable. Google pays Firefox ~$450M for

> Chrome is a loss leader Alternatively: making a browser means you can choose the default search engine, and this is valuable. Google pays Firefox ~$450M for this, for ~9% of desktop traffic. [1] Chrome is ~70% of desktop traffic [1] and so you could extrapolate it at ~$3.5B. [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl... (Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)