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Mozilla Raking in Millions?
truthsearch writes "Internetnews.com wonders about the money Firefox is making in revenue thanks to Google. From the article: 'Mozilla gets paid a publicly undisclosed amount for each Google search query made from Firefox by a user.' This revenue is used to pay the recently formed Mozilla Corporation's 40 full-time equivalent employees and fund project and infrastructure development."
How do the users benefit? Choice is always best. This is exactly the same as Skype inking a deal with Intel to 'prioritise' their software for their chip.
Ummm, correct me if I'm wrong, but if Google paid advertisers to put their ads on Google's servers, Google would probably go bankrupt. I think you have that ass-backwards. Last I heard, advertisers generally pay others to place their ads on others services. ;-)
You could be thinking of Adsense though, which is entirely different from what you described though.
Yes, but Slashdot is a publisher, not an advertiser. An advertiser is a company who is paying Google to display ads about their products. Slashdot publishes content, and displays Google's ads.
For long-time Mozilla suite users like me, 'having FireFox' seems like an irrelevant distraction. Sort of the AOL of Mozilla browsers.
(mark this flamebait. Firefox twinkies WILL flame it)