> If Google didn't pay for being the default search engine, or tried lowballing, someone else would make a deal instead This already happened with Yahoo. Mozil

> If Google didn't pay for being the default search engine, or tried lowballing, someone else would make a deal instead This already happened with Yahoo. Mozilla got a ton more money, too. It was utterly disastrous for them. It turned out that Firefox needs Google as the default more than Google needs them - well, for the stated purposes of the deal, of course.