And how would they make money from it? Right now search only pays if you do advertising. Mozilla's been using search ad revenue from Google and now Yahoo for r

And how would they make money from it? Right now search only pays if you do advertising. Mozilla's been using search ad revenue from Google and now Yahoo for revenue. If Mozilla gets into the search engine game they'll be getting in to the advertising game. And the advertising game is about serving up your users and what you know about them to the highest bidder. That doesn't sound like a good fit with Mozilla.