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Why Google Needs Firefox

Posted by Soulskill on from the why-can't-i-quit-you dept.

MrSeb writes "Almost the entirety of Mozilla's income — 97% of $104 million — arrives in the form of royalties from the Firefox search box, and the lion's share (86%, $85 million) of those royalties are paid by the default search engine: Google. In November 2011, however, Mozilla's contract with Google will expire. Will Google renew it? A better question to ask, though, is whether Mozilla wants Google as its primary search engine."

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  1. Re:Switching from Google by Wattos · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Cant speak for other users, but I get immensely annoyed when I see search results from other engines (e.g. at work). I immediately ignore the results and type in google.com into the browser.

    It just doesn't feel right anymore.

  2. Re:Google does NOT need Firefox by rbayer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But it's nowhere near as effective as the Firefox version. Last I checked, the Chrome version couldn't block those annoying ads that play at the start of some video clips, whereas with Firefox I didn't even know such things existed.