Mozilla’s reliance on Google is increasing: 90% of 2012 revenue

Re:Mozilla’s reliance on Google is increasing: 90% of 2012 r... by untog on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:09AM (#6775376)

Two points:

Mozilla is pumping out mostly user facing open source software, which will probably attract less money than, say, Red Hat.

Also, it's not that no company except Google is backing them. It's that they get a huge amount of money from their search box - currently paid by Google. Microsoft might well be happy to become the default and pay just as much.

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Re:Mozilla’s reliance on Google is increasing: 90% of 2012 r... by huxley on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:28AM (#6775529)

Microsoft wasn't interested in paying anything near that much, nor was Yahoo, that's why talks collapsed during the negotiations.

Google does consider the search engine placement valuable but it is probably also funding Mozilla as a hedge against anti-trust lawsuits.

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Re:Mozilla’s reliance on Google is increasing: 90% of 2012 r... by eigenvalue on Thursday November 21, 2013 @12:14PM (#6775890)

That's probably because it's not worth nearly as much to MS or Yahoo. I'm sure a non-trivial percentage of users would change the default search away from Bing.

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Re:Mozilla’s reliance on Google is increasing: 90% of 2012 r... by takluyver on Thursday November 21, 2013 @12:48PM (#6776126)

Also, with Yahoo's search results now coming from Bing, this does mean that the biggest potential sources of funding are all linked to companies who compete directly with Mozilla's biggest product - Google and Microsoft have their own browsers. It's certainly not an ideal position for Mozilla.

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Re:Mozilla’s reliance on Google is increasing: 90% of 2012 r... by jeffasinger on Thursday November 21, 2013 @01:49PM (#6776540)

There are other search engines that may be interested in something like this. While strange bedfellows for geopolitical reasons, I could see Yandex or Baidu doing a default search deal in order to break into the English speaking market a little more.

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Re:Mozilla’s reliance on Google is increasing: 90% of 2012 r... by shmerl on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:14AM (#6775416)

Mozilla works on some services too.

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Re:Mozilla’s reliance on Google is increasing: 90% of 2012 r... by 3825 on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:19AM (#6775452)

For instance, Mozilla Persona is a simple sign-in solution for the web. Learn more at https://www.mozilla.org/persona/

Edit 3: Fixed link for international readers

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Re:Mozilla’s reliance on Google is increasing: 90% of 2012 r... by untog on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:22AM (#6775481)

Oh, for sure. That's why I said "mostly". But the majority mindshare/publicity is for their user-facing stuff.

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