Posted on Friday, December 23 2011 @ 22:13 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Word is out on the street that Google
is paying Mozilla about $900 million over the next three years to keep Google the default search engine in the Firefox browser.
The two parties this week renewed their longstanding partnership to keep Google as the default search engine, rather than moving to alternative such as Yahoo or Microsoft's Bing. When the agreement was announced, neither disclosed financial terms.
On Thursday, the website AllThingsD reported that the deal would call for Google to pay the nonprofit Mozilla about $300 million a year for the next three years.
"We're pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google," Mozilla said in a blog post Tuesday. "This new agreement extends our long-term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years."
