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Mozilla Raking in Millions?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i'm-a-twentyonaire dept.

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."

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  1. Help them make more... by The+Hobo · · Score: 5, Informative

    By using this link to get to the story ;-)

    Interesting to note the default "google" keyword for the address bar puts the sourceid=firefox in there

    As an aside, for those who want to make their own custom keywords (and don't know how to), here's an example: Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks, click on any of the bookmarks under "quick searches", click new bookmark (top left), I made one for acronyms using acronym finder.

    Name: Acronym Finder
    Location: right click here, copy link location, paste (/. chews up the link)
    Keyword: af
    Description: You can put whatever you want here, it's optional

    Then you click ok. Now when in firefox you can just search for acronyms by typing af + the acronym, for example: af HTTP

    For other websites that use a link similar to the acronymfinder one, just insert %s where your query would go. In my example it's in Acronym=%s. You can also note the other default quicksearches that already exist (ex. slang for urban dictionary, dict for dictionary.com)

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  2. Re:Google = "Rich Sugar Daddy"? by neonstz · · Score: 4, Informative
    Tetzchner was close to the truth. Apparently, the real sugar daddy is Google.
    Opera makes money on user searches too, and they did before they released the free version.
  3. Re:what a dumb article by Red+Alastor · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you give money to mozilla, you will give to the Mozilla Foundation which is a non-profit. If Google gives money to Mozilla, they will give to the Mozilla Corporation (corporations have less regulations) whose sole shareholder is the Mozilla Foundation.

    You can't really object to the Mozilla Corporation saying "Oh, they'll put all that money in the pockets of their shareholders" because the only shareholder they have is a non-profit entity.

    The corporation does not disclose how much they make and they pay taxes.

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  4. TFA says "millions" by john-da-luthrun · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you RTFA, a Mozilla board member says that the quoted figure of $72 million is too high, but "not off by an order of magnitude".

  5. Re:Google = "Rich Sugar Daddy"? by rm69990 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google has a similar relationship with Opera, just to let you know.