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Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance by asadotzler on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @12:12AM (#8519511)
365 days a year for several years Google has had a Chrome banner ad on www.google.com showing to Firefox users. That page is the most lucrative property on the web in terms of eyeballs, so take your most outrageous ad rate you can find and do the math. It's billions per year worth of advertising.
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Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance by SquareWheel on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @07:58AM (#8520471)
It's also completely free for Google to advertise on their own website.
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Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance by valarauca1 on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @09:01AM (#8520696)
Yes but that doesn't mean the economic value is non-existent.

Theoretically Google could sell that space. They trade this potential profit to promote their own product, at a loss, of how ever much that space could be sold for. This is like economics 202, opportunity cost.

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Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance by MichaelGG on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @12:38PM (#8521853)
It's not that simple. It's easy enough to claim that showing a Chrome ad benefits users and helps Google's brand. Showing third party ads hurts Google's brand and overall value.
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Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance by valarauca1 on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @12:43PM (#8521881)
Only if the 3rd party project is subpar. largely chrome is a 3rd party project from the eyes of search. I'm pretty sure there isn't a massive overlap between search and chrome developers at google.
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