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- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -2/+85wow… you can get rich by making free software…
- damack, on 08/31/2008, -3/+85Thats great I love Firefox couldn't live without it.
- ansecos, on 09/01/2008, -6/+73Meh, if they didn't do it, the users would have made google their default engine anyway
- qwertyuio, on 09/01/2008, -0/+51Where does the other 15% of Mozilla's revenue come from?
- digitaldivinci, on 09/01/2008, -1/+43If it wasn't by default people wouldn't care. Now that everyone and their brother uses Firefox, if Google wasn't the default choice, Mr. Smith wouldn't go and change it.
People that use Yahoo!/LiveSearch confuse and anger me. - TheWriteGuy, on 09/01/2008, -1/+39The remaining 15% comes from T-shirt sales:
http://www.lapastillaroja.net/archives/Firefox_T-S ... - BoydRE, on 09/01/2008, -3/+38Mozilla and Google are like the parents I never had... :)
- ceredron, on 09/01/2008, -1/+34How do you even use yahoo.... I went to yahoo.com and got lost in the clutter
- c0oll2icef0o, on 09/01/2008, -0/+22im guessing a large part of that 15% is from donations
- Pete1the1gamer, on 09/01/2008, -3/+21Good thing I bought Google stock back in '78
- riseinhell, on 09/01/2008, -0/+16Mozilla Foundation and Subsidiary
Revenues and Other Support:
Royalties - search $ 61,501,145
Royalties - product sales $94,590
Product revenues $1,000,416
Contracted services $137,500
Contributions $92,602
Interest income $2,162,756
Other income $60,351
Unrealized gain from investments $1,791,490
Total revenue and support $66,840,850
That's from their 2006 financial statement. Donations make up less that 1%
http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/documents/mf-200 ... - Akraz, on 09/01/2008, -2/+17good
- Nouman6, on 09/01/2008, -0/+14Hopefully the cash can help move Mozilla to new places :)
- soccerman90, on 09/01/2008, -1/+14people working at mozilla expect a paycheck, so...
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -1/+13Google is the only search engine worth a damn these days.
Sure, Live! and Yahoo can look good and say they index more pages or whatever they want, but nothing gives more relevant search results than Google... - inactive, on 09/01/2008, -1/+11What other search engine would you use as the default? Seems like FF got paid to do something they'd have done anyway
- 4321234, on 09/01/2008, -0/+9Residuals from the movie where he destroyed Tokyo.
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -0/+9Yahoo and Live! both suck. I was searching for the DirectX SDK and i got the German and some other language version first - Good just MS, you made searching for your own stuff using your search engine hard.
Yahoo i just can't find anything with. - jameshighmore, on 09/01/2008, -0/+9They certainly taught me more about the birds and the bees than my biological parents ever did.
- Sabin, on 09/01/2008, -0/+7Or Google will make its own browser....
http://digg.com/software/Google_Chrome_a_browser_b ... - samimnot, on 09/01/2008, -0/+7That $57 million in 2006, could easily turn into $100 million by 2011 when this contract runs it's course. Considering how much more popular Firefox is becoming, year after year...
- luap119, on 09/01/2008, -0/+7Nice! Google is always on top of things. Props to both!
- philberttheduck, on 09/01/2008, -0/+6From viewers like you
- Disinterested, on 09/01/2008, -3/+9I love firefox!
- HanSolo69, on 09/01/2008, -0/+6Some other search engine will be waiting to fill the void.
- NathanielJ, on 09/01/2008, -0/+5I agree, but users should still have a choice.
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -3/+7scroogle.org
"An ad-free Google search proxy which prevents the searcher's data being stored by Google, a Firefox plugin, and tools for webmasters." - Lets03, on 09/01/2008, -0/+4In any case I think google would still be a better option. I do not believe in a better offer than that.
- plagiats, on 09/01/2008, -1/+5You are almost right. I guess without the deal, firefox would either get an even more lucrative offer from Yahoo or Microsoft (or some well-funded outsider) or give a simplified choice to the user, somehow just like Opera on the Wii does :
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=q-FW2gZghck (skip to 1:09) - sexybobo, on 09/01/2008, -1/+4The other search engines. Google isn't default all over the world just in places where google is the most popular search engine and mozzila makes money off of searches from the search bar from live and yahoo also.
- Oddish, on 09/01/2008, -0/+3Sure, but would Firefox be what it is today without the millions of dollars from Google? I don't think so.
- chmcarro, on 09/01/2008, -2/+5lol http://www.scroogle.com NSFW
- Kakemonstere, on 09/01/2008, -2/+5Me :D
- fatb0y42, on 09/01/2008, -0/+3this is great for both companies
- phibit, on 09/01/2008, -0/+3This is great for now, but when Mozilla relies so heavily on one source for income, what happens if their funding gets pulled? No more Mozilla project.. :(
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -1/+4I didn't know they got paid for it, that's awesome.
Those guys deserve every penny. - inactive, on 09/01/2008, -0/+3@transfuse: Simplicity is good. They can spend the processing power they save on providing good search algorithms instead.
- cubicledrone, on 09/01/2008, -1/+4Yeah it couldn't be that Firefox is a great browser.
- ethana2, on 09/02/2008, -0/+3Nothing backstabbing about that. I welcome the additional choice. Competition is awesome.
Collaboration is even better.
Both is absolutely amazing. Chrome is both. - dafragsta, on 09/01/2008, -0/+31.) How did Blizzard support a company you love? They make great games, but I've talked to people who work low on the totem pole and they are apparently a REALLY ***** company to work for.
2.) I would hardly say that Blizzard got eaten up. I would say it was a mutual and strategical move by two cash cows (who can eat up the $100M a month revenue stream that is WoW anyway?) to pull their collective weight together to have the resources to go toe-to-toe with the only other juggernaut of video games, EA. Activision is positioned to be able to spend hundreds of millions on a single title now. This is the way that video games are moving. They stretch out the gap of earnings between games and movies every year and now the only thing left for them to do is to try to expand the market with the grandeur usually reserved for big budget movies. - comrade693, on 09/01/2008, -0/+3They don't spend it all every year. A good chunk is invested for such a rainy day.
- BeefBaron, on 09/01/2008, -1/+4So killing you is as easy as shutting down Mozilla? Some people make it so easy.
- DarkoKun, on 09/01/2008, -0/+3I use yahoo as my search engine of choice just because I have ever since I started using the internet. But is there a advantage when using google? Or is it kjust because there isn't much on the google search page? I would really like to know.
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -0/+2@Talonstriker: Not for images. At one point Google Images was a bit crap but now it's contextual page searching for images is incredibly spot on - not to mention i always get more results from Google Images. When you're searching for obscure or extremely obscure stuff it shows more than typical things. Live! may beat it for typical searching, but if it wasn't obscure then you could probably find images other ways too.
- DarkredDragon, on 07/07/2009, -1/+3Glad to see google and mozilla workin togheter
- talonstriker, on 09/01/2008, -0/+2Google isn't l33t by any means. Its great for webpage searching but MS's Live search is much better for image and map search--especially the map.
- yetAnotherCroc, on 09/01/2008, -0/+2@DarkoKun: The difference is that with Google you actually find stuff. And I'm not exadurating. Once you go Google you dont go back. It is really good at weeding out the duplicates and finding the most relevant results and putting them on top. Oh and the adds are so unobtrusive you hardly know they are there.
- myhandleondigg, on 09/01/2008, -0/+2The fact that they're paying is the only thing that I found interesting here. I like to think they did things with Firefox because it was the best, but if Microsoft offers 75 million am I going to have to change it everytime I install FIrefox? Bummer.
- FurtThePirate, on 09/01/2008, -10/+12I prefer to use IE but that still doesn't mean I don't like Firefox. The market needs competition, so this is great news for everyone.
- philberttheduck, on 09/01/2008, -1/+3In Soviet Russia, Firefox will buy Google.
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