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> Google didn't buy its way into dominance annd maintain their dominance through exclusivity deals That’s just a waste of money then. Why are they paying bilio
by gessha 2y ago
> Google didn't buy its way into dominance annd maintain their dominance through exclusivity deals
That’s just a waste of money then. Why are they paying bilious to Mozilla and Apple? Because they’re good buddies? Wouldn’t people use Google anyway?
Just imagine the Google CFO looking through the finance spreadsheets last year and instead of going “let’s layoff a whole bunch of people” they go with “let’s stop paying Apple and Mozilla” for default search.
- octodog 2y agoNot necessarily. At least some of the benefit for Google is that they prevent a competitor from paying to be the default search.
- greycol 2y agoYour point stands but there's an argument to be made they paid Mozilla so that they don't collapse and then have to defend a monopoly lawsuit on Chrome.