Some aspects of the Firefox-Google relationship.
Some aspects of the Firefox-Google relationship
Fact: The $ 56 million of the $ 66 million that Mozilla earned in 2006 came from Google. A significant part of this amount was due to the fact that Google is the default search engine for entering queries on the Firefox search bar .
Fact: The Mozilla-Google contract ends next year , it’s very undesirable for Mozilla to switch to another search engine, even if they pay more. A simple reason for this is that a lot of users like the Google search experience. If Firefox switches, say, to MSN Live Search, for example, many users will rebel. Therefore, as long as Mozilla can continue to receive Google money, the company cannot really change the default search engine to another.
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Fact: A user who entered a keyword or invalid URLs in the Firefox 2.0 navigation bar will immediately receive a Google search result “I'm Feeling Lucky”. Thus, they will receive the first result of the query in Google for these concepts .
Fact: In addition to the cash flow from Google to Mozilla, a significant number of Google engineers spend a significant amount of time working on Firefox. Including Ben Goodger , lead developer for the browser. Yes, many companies pay developers to work with Firefox, but none of them spend so much resources on this browser.
Fact: The two key points of the Google Toolbar for Firefox were presented in Firefox 2.0 and they are enabled by default: Google Browse By Name and Google Safe Browsing for Firefox (now the Phishing Protection feature in Firefox 2.0). These two features are more than just a useful patch. They lead to millions of Firefox browsers regularly to poll Google servers.
Fact: Google Anti-Phishing relationships will be expanded in Firefox 3.0 . Currently, Google by default provides a blacklist of well-known phishing sites to the browser, this will be strenuously including in the blacklist of sites that distribute malicious software.
Fact: Google pays AdSense publishers (website owners) $ 1 for each new user who installs Firefox + Google Toolbar as a result of a referral link from one of their pages.
Translation of the article Surveillance State .
Fact: The $ 56 million of the $ 66 million that Mozilla earned in 2006 came from Google. A significant part of this amount was due to the fact that Google is the default search engine for entering queries on the Firefox search bar .
Fact: The Mozilla-Google contract ends next year , it’s very undesirable for Mozilla to switch to another search engine, even if they pay more. A simple reason for this is that a lot of users like the Google search experience. If Firefox switches, say, to MSN Live Search, for example, many users will rebel. Therefore, as long as Mozilla can continue to receive Google money, the company cannot really change the default search engine to another.
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Fact: A user who entered a keyword or invalid URLs in the Firefox 2.0 navigation bar will immediately receive a Google search result “I'm Feeling Lucky”. Thus, they will receive the first result of the query in Google for these concepts .
Fact: In addition to the cash flow from Google to Mozilla, a significant number of Google engineers spend a significant amount of time working on Firefox. Including Ben Goodger , lead developer for the browser. Yes, many companies pay developers to work with Firefox, but none of them spend so much resources on this browser.
Fact: The two key points of the Google Toolbar for Firefox were presented in Firefox 2.0 and they are enabled by default: Google Browse By Name and Google Safe Browsing for Firefox (now the Phishing Protection feature in Firefox 2.0). These two features are more than just a useful patch. They lead to millions of Firefox browsers regularly to poll Google servers.
Fact: Google Anti-Phishing relationships will be expanded in Firefox 3.0 . Currently, Google by default provides a blacklist of well-known phishing sites to the browser, this will be strenuously including in the blacklist of sites that distribute malicious software.
Fact: Google pays AdSense publishers (website owners) $ 1 for each new user who installs Firefox + Google Toolbar as a result of a referral link from one of their pages.
Translation of the article Surveillance State .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/15682/
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