Google Gives Mozilla Foundation Most Of $72 Million In Revenues
Jason Calacanis posts a useful bit of information: The Mozilla Foundation, the fine folks that produce the “hot” Firefox browser pulled in $72 million in revenues last year, most of it from their Google search box. Basically, when you search from Firefox’s little box, and then click on a Google ad, MoFo gets 80%, just as though those were AdSense ads. That’s a really sweet cut.
Mozilla also gets some cash from Amazon search and other affiliate programs. I’ll bet there’s a way to config Firefox to use your own AdSense for search and Amazon Associates in the browser to get some money, but I suggest no one changes it. After all, its free software; the least you could do is pay for it through such an innocuous means.
(via Jeremy)
