Mozilla and Google Partnership To Extend Till 2011!:
Mozilla Inc. that is the inventor of the widely acclaimed web browser, FireFox has announced that it has extended its search deal with the search engine giant, Google for another three years. According to the negotiations between Google and Mozilla, in exchange of setting Google as the default search engine, Google will pay Mozilla a hnadsome amount of $57 million amounting to a total of 85% of Mozilla’s annual revenue. The new deal will run till throughout the year 2011.
According to Mitchell Baker (Mozilla, CEO), “We’re very, very happy about our relationship with Google and this makes sure that Mozilla will be sustainable and thrive for quite a long time to come. We develop our product and technical direction as part of an open process unrelated to the search relationship with Google. We talk to Google about the parts of the product that offer Google services (i.e., the Firefox Start Page) and the services they provide, like anti-phishing. Otherwise Google does not have any special relationship to Mozilla project activities.
The monetary benefits provided to Mozilla due to search deal, enables the company to pay staff, support its bandwidth and hardware infrastructure, and to distribute a number of grants.
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February 18, 2009 at 01:48
Thanks mucx