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- manitoba98xp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45You mean like this:
FIR€FOX
THUND£RBIRD
$EAMONKEY
I'm evil, aren't I? - Pseudorious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35Revenue != Profit
- baalzebub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31good, i am glad the mozilla foundation is making some money from the hard work that has gone in to their products :)
everyone gotta eat & pay bills - Llanowar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26*acts shocked*
- madoxx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24now take that money and do something good with it. make this browser even better. hire more people, speed up the development time...
- isuldor, on 10/12/2007, -7/+27"The revenue is from the easy 'search' capabilities built into Firefox and the related revenue relationships with the search providers." Wow, I had no idea they were generating revenue like that.
Quote from the article on CNet: http://digg.com/tech_news/Mozilla_s_2005_revenue_52_9_million - Diggtatorship, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16And I'm happy to do so.
Spread Firefox, everyone benefits - AgentMull, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Money. Profit.
- jacobmiller, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20Right, because all those people who submitted patches are now being paid by the foundation. Er, didn't think so.
- shad0w, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Also known as click fraud.
- GenericUser2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17http://www.duggmirror.com/business_finance/Firefox_A_50_000_000_Cash_Cow
- jacobmiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Why not just link to her own blog which is what all these articles are using as their source:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/01/the_mozilla_foundation_achievi.html - barius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11As long as they remain non-profit I'm willing to keep providing patches. You have to admit, some development goals can be reached alot faster when there is a monetary incentive (e.g. the nice looking UI). I don't grudge them anything so long as they keep using the money to give back to the community.
- PeTeRZz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12they deserve it.
- theodicey, on 10/12/2007, -9/+17Step 1. Search for "mesothelioma" using Firefox.
Step 2. Click any ad link.
Step 3. You've just donated $15 to Firefox!
Faster and easier than ordering from the Mozilla store... - renegadeafk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11I've clicked one, maybe once or twice, but on accident :)
- t0mmmmmmm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8they chose S-free names for firefox and mozilla on purpose, its so that that people cant make "M$" jokes about them.
high five mozilla!
we were wondering how much they make, now we wonder what they do with it. - Pests, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Yes.
- xelloss, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9We should probably digg his, at least his Cnet won't get hurt by the Digg affect and we could actually view the story.
- t0mmmmmmm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8and they have no advertising expenses since people "spread the word"
- RyanPenn21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Firefox is fantastic. I love it. I'm glad they are making a ton of money. guess FF will only get better!!
- AcidPhysx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I have never knowingly clicked an ad link in my life.
- dreamlayers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I've clicked on them but I've stopped clicking and I use AdBlock and CustomizeGoogle. I eventually concluded that the sponsored links are of worse quality than the search results and not worth clicking. Think about it, if they were good they'd be higher up in the search results and they wouldn't have to pay for links. They're also sometimes misleading. For example, if I search for emule I see the actual project page as the #1 search result and the ads are for fishy companies that try to make you pay for emule. Another example is searching for Linux and seeing a Microsoft "Linux vs. Windows" page as a sponsored result above the #1 search result.
- dognose, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8This isn't exactly news. It's been publically disclosed for ages. They are a non profit and file papers on where their cash comes from.
- bianconero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6...and here I thought they were releasing FF out of the goodness of their hearts :/
- Eastlygod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Don't you just love the sponsered links?
'Looking for Dr John Snow?
Buy Dr John Snow on ebay!'
And Firefox makes money from that? - rbtopp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6What about $ongbird?
- Vinthian, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6i use firefox everyday, and google searchbar even more. glad i can help them get some $$$! :D
- Eastlygod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@user123
Did you read the article?
" If you use that box to make a search and click on one of the Google ads from the results page, Firefox gets an estimated 80% of the money"
So Google gets 20%...Mozilla gets the rest. - ashlvsya, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5And those guys deserve every penny...
- Artifakt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Before any idiot thinks this is a good idea, that's click fraud and entirely illegal.
- Dmitrik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I clicked at many of Google ads, mainly because they were what I was searching for... or atleast something close.
- Hellman109, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If your switching between other engines why not switch to google?
Also, typing a search into the address bar, but without any full stops in it, either does a "im feeling lucky" or a google search... actually it might search on the engine on the right, no idea, as I never change from google.
But typing into the address bar is the best 'hidden' feature Ive found in Firefox - menatas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I have been an avid Firefox user since day 1 (more like when it was still mozilla) I tried Opera because I was tired of the 250mb memory footprint firefox crashes. Sure when they introduced crashed session restoring it worked better, but seriously:
Download Opera
Open all the digg front page links into tabs in opera and firefox
Watch the difference in memory footprint
Heres the kicker: press back in Opera and Firefox
Even though they both load cached versions, the difference in speed is immense.
Sure it doesn't have extensions, and that's its only shortfall (no, widgets don't count as decent extensions), and I miss my web developer tool bar, but in the end, I spend 95% on a browser browsing, and 5% developing, so I went with the browser that is as fast as possible has minimum memory footprint for everyday stuff, and firefox is in the background if I need to develop a web page.
I used to knock Opera too, but after an hour of using it, it felt much nicer. - timjbart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4" If you use that box to make a search and click on one of the Google ads from the results page, Firefox gets an estimated 80% of the money"
Anyone else making a couple of searches and clicking on sponsored links for fun...just to make them a bit more dosh - bostonyankee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Tell me... what good is "web compliant" if nobody writes web applications for it? Firefox is gaining momentum and already has sufficient critical mass for institutions to start looking at ensuring that their sites can be seen properly with it. Opera's been around for a while and it's never gotten that critical mass. You can still watch your videos with betamax if you like though.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It depends. If I'm looking for hosting or something I'm actually going to buy, I click an ad on Google to check them out. Most likely purposely clicked around 15-20 ads in my life.
- volcomguy32686, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2now when i click on the google search in the right, a chick ching sound should play, just to know that your paying firefox
- CoolWind, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3They had $50 million in revenue. They also had expenses. They didn't make $50 million.
- motang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Microsoft doensn't need money from Google they have enough flowing in from their OS and office product.
- collintheweak, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6I remember the first time I heard about this.
I've been impressed by Mozilla, let the non-free competition take note. Innovate or die when Software costs more than non-apple hardware. - user123, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4> theodicy: click on any ad for blah via google... "Faster and easier than ordering from the Mozilla store.."
Stock Google ads via standard Google searches (from google.com) pay Google.
Please stop using the tabloid to support your inaccurate arguments. - lawyernheart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How about with the dedicated google toolbar dl'd from google? Ive deleted google from the built in search box and use it for wikipedia, ebay, craigslist, etc. only Anyone have any ideas?
- ScottMitchell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I take it the links in the Blue background at the top of the search results are paid links? If so, then, yes, quite often. For example, say I want to go to Apple's store and see the specs for an iPod. Just type iPod into the search window, and the first link (in the blue) is a link to Apple's online store.
The links on the right of the search, now, I don't think I've ever clicked, let alone read. Although I do occasionally read the "targeted" ads in Gmail because sometimes they can be a riot (ironic ads given the context of the email, or whatnot). - playerslight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Which guy? Mitchell Baker? The female head of mozilla.org?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker - jhshukla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i like opera but my keyboard volume controls don't work when focus is on any opera window.
- dreamlayers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So what's Google paying for anyways? Just the fact that it's the default search engine in Firefox? I wonder if they still pay if you use other search plugins from http://mycroft.mozdev.org/quick/google.html ?
- grinin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This guy grew up just north east of me... is younger than me by a year.... and is rolling in dough...... ITs tough making it Miami :(
- mattjewell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I doubt it, Microsoft had a bitch when the IE7 "make Google your default search provider" notice started displaying on the Google homepage form what i hear.
- jhshukla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1they no longer *show it off* but i remember the first time it was introduced it got some quite good promo.
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