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I thought that Google was still far and away their main revenue source?
by joosters 12y ago
I thought that Google was still far and away their main revenue source?
- mbrubeck 12y agoIt has been for the last three years, but Mozilla decided to go with Yahoo/Yandex/Baidu rather than renew the deal with Google. So Yahoo (and others) will replace Google as the main revenue source.
- joosters 12y agoHave they disclosed the new financial terms of the agreement though? I'd be interested to see how the numbers have changed.
- mythmon_ 12y agoThe only public numbers are from the the previous Google search deal (the one from 3 years ago). It will be a long time until the details of this new deal are public. In the mean time I (as a Mozilla employee) can say that all of the options Mozilla had for the new search deal were better economically than the now-ending Google deal. This was really nice, because Mozilla got to make a choice that wasn't about money, but was about strategy and what we want in the web instead.
- gcp 12y agoThe numbers are never disclosed, but they can usually be inferred from Mozilla's public accounting. That'll take a while, though.
- nnethercote 12y agoNot any more. That's exactly what this story is about! :)
- joosters 12y agoBut the story mentions no $ numbers. Yahoo getting the default for US searches is clearly a big thing. Is that bigger than the rest-of-world searches? I really have no idea and seeing the figures would be very interesting.