Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement For Default Search

An anonymous reader writes "It appears Google will not cut their default search arrangement with Mozilla. From the official blog post: 'We're pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google. This new agreement extends our long term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years.'"

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Re:Not a huge surprise...

[Billly Gates]

MS does not have the market power and mindset it did 10 years ago. This is especially true compared to Google. Chrome is proprietary, dart, NACL, SPDY, and special javascript extensions, while IE 10 is the most conforment browser to date.

I would have stuck with Bing. When monopolies lose their power they became nice. When nice companies gain it they became assholes like Apple. Google is too big and a threat to Mozilla's survival. Google's ecosystem includes all their cloud apps where extensions are Chrome OS/Browser applets inside the browser and they use their search engine as a way to force it in.

Remember IBM was the big enemy in the 1980s before MS. I think Mozilla needs to rethink as MS is moving away from silveright, IE 6, and even win32 to a certain extent for mobile users.