24th
Google’s $300 Million to Mozilla
It is 3am in Tokyo and since I can’t sleep I was thinking about how crazy it was that Google is now paying Mozilla $300 million per year, which is 3x higher then the previous contract, to be the default search for Firefox.
I wonder if the deal included that Firefox will need to go to the format of Chrome with the Omnibox. If you have not used Chrome before you can either type in a domain direct (www.cnn.com) or you can just type in CNN and google will show the results, all in what used to be the address box. Remember since Google makes its money off of paid search results the more search the more money.
So even with Firefox’s market share declining, the $300 million might not be so crazy if a simple tweak could change the ROI dramatically.
Also the obvious here is that this was just a move to block Bing, I was thinking maybe there was another more mathematical way to justify the 3x hike.
