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The only reason they pay is the marketshare firefox/safari holds. If it wasn't google paying, it would be microsoft, with bing. It would be a huge loss for Go
by zobzu 14y ago
The only reason they pay is the marketshare firefox/safari holds.
If it wasn't google paying, it would be microsoft, with bing.
It would be a huge loss for Google currently. Don't doubt for a second that if Firefox marketshare falls under 5% Google will stop paying anything.
- mbrubeck 14y agoDon't be so sure. Google is also one of Opera's biggest clients, paying a significant sum to Opera for search traffic from their desktop browser, despite its much smaller desktop market share: http://www.zdnet.com/opera-google-extend-search-deal-for-two-years-7000002997/ http://www.zdnet.com/opera-google-extend-search-deal-for-two... Opera makes about $15M per quarter in revenue from its desktop browser: http://www.favbrowser.com/opera-software-q2-2012-financial-results/ http://www.favbrowser.com/opera-software-q2-2012-financial-r...
- zobzu 14y agook maybe instead of 5% i should have said "an insignificant market share" (5% is still pretty big) Even Opera's marketshare is significant. But just imagine, for a second, that 20% of the internet just gets to use bing instead of google.com because it became the default overnight. Outch.