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Google pays $300 Million annually to Mozilla in order to keep Google as the default search provider in Firefox

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LibyanFreedomFighter is not online. LibyanFreedomFighter
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04 Mar 2012 11:42 AM
What's Firefox worth to Google? A cool $300 million a year, according to a Thursday report by AllThingsD.

Two days ago, Google and Mozilla announced that they had reached an agreement to keep Google as the default search engine in the Firefox browser. The pact was crucial to keeping the lights on at Mozilla, which in 2010 earned 84 percent of its $123 million in annual revenue from its Google search contract.


According to AllThingsD, Google will pay Mozilla nearly $300 million annually for another three years. Not surprisingly, Google's main competitor in the bid was Microsoft's money-losing Bing search engine, which currently has 15 percent of the U.S. search market, according to the latest comScore estimates.

Google almost certainly paid more than it would have liked for the default search slot in Firefox, which holds a significant share--around 25 percent--of the global browser market, according to StatCounter. Ironically, Firefox continues to bleed users, most of whom appear to be migrating to Google's own Chrome browser.

Despite Firefox's lagging fortunes, Bing would have earned a major victory by becoming the default search engine in Mozilla's browser.

Microsoft's market-share gains in the search business have come largely at the expense of its business partner Yahoo. Bing powers Yahoo Search, while Yahoo provides search-advertising services for both companies.

But Bing has failed to chip away at Google's dominant market share, which has remained steady at around 65 percent. Yahoo Search, meanwhile, is currently tied for a distant second with Bing: Both have about 15 percent of the market according to comScore.




i hate bing
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myrkos is not online. myrkos
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04 Mar 2012 11:44 AM
thelatesttech-news.blogspot DOT com
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pighead10 is not online. pighead10
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04 Mar 2012 11:45 AM
Well, it makes sense, seeing the amount of people who use firefox and almost all of them won't bother to change the search engine. And why would they want to, Google has by far the best searching algorithm. Bing is terrible.
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Rob498 is not online. Rob498
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04 Mar 2012 11:56 AM
I decided to Bing a go a long while back, it was terrible, Google was better in almost every aspect of a search engine you'd want.

And if we were comparing browsers here, I'd use Google Chrome for speed, but Firefox for flexibility and customisation. Internet Explorer is hanging in there but it often makes you prone to viruses.
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trappingnoobs is not online. trappingnoobs
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04 Mar 2012 12:01 PM
duckduckgo is my homepage
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sncplay42 is not online. sncplay42
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04 Mar 2012 12:30 PM
And FF using bing as the default search wouldn't have been ironic at all
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04 Mar 2012 12:48 PM
I don't see how DuckDuckGo can earn earn the money to keep the site up. The other big providers get that money exactly by selling your data.
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trappingnoobs is not online. trappingnoobs
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04 Mar 2012 01:48 PM
I think it's just ran by some guy off his wages he gets from work.
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04 Mar 2012 01:50 PM
2mod read 2nd post, offsite link, ban him!
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04 Mar 2012 01:56 PM
Ban GMPV for requesting myrkos be banned!
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04 Mar 2012 01:58 PM
dude stop being mean to me! ill tell my mom to call roblox and ull get banned
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04 Mar 2012 02:03 PM
Can't tell if serious, a kid, dumb, or a failtroll.
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04 Mar 2012 02:07 PM
I think 2nd and 3rd.
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04 Mar 2012 02:17 PM
My mom wrote about (she is a semifamous journalist) how bing copies google results.
To test it, google added random nonexistant results and they showed up
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04 Mar 2012 02:23 PM
I know where I am going to invest my stock. =P
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04 Mar 2012 03:42 PM
@TheMycro
It's best you don't post that on a thread where a moderator has posted :o
Well anyway,

I heard that Google generates like billions of dollars for economic things.

~Blue
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04 Mar 2012 04:00 PM
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LegacyOfFail is not online. LegacyOfFail
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04 Mar 2012 05:49 PM
Why the hell is this on the >>SCRIPTING<< forums? T_T

-expro
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04 Mar 2012 05:56 PM
Oh my god, I am like so cool.

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BrontoByte is not online. BrontoByte
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04 Mar 2012 05:58 PM
@legacy

because google website is c0de and so is mozilla firefox browser so it only necessary 2 post it here111111

-thatkid
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