Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Mozilla is dependent on Google




Mozilla recorded revenues in 2007 increased by 12% and were in total 75 million dollars, of which 88 percent are generated by searches in Google, exactly 66 million dollars. Unlike the financial report done for the year 2006, the financial benefits of Google rose by 3%.
At the time of launching Chrome browser, Google announced that it will maintain for another three years marketing partnership with the Mozilla and Firefox. Thus, the agreement between the two companies will end in 2011, not this month as had been originally set.



The report for last year of Mozilla only strengthen the reason for which the company has agreed to extend the agreement: the profit brought by the giant search engine. Space search Google Toolbar Mozilla Firefox brings the company revenue every time a search is performed on Google.
Even if the browser Firefox is successful and used by many people, it is free, which makes Mozilla to be depending on the financial benefits offered by Google.
Some market analysts say that Mozilla has delayed financial report for last year just because they saw the need to make advertising revenue from Google, which only demonstrate that Mozilla is no more a non-profit company.




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