beer Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Some people have been questioning why Google would dump nearly a billion dollars into a three-year search deal with Mozilla and its Firefox browser instead of leaving Mozilla high and dry after their existing agreement expired. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that the new deal is three times higher than the previous one, and is more than Microsoft was willing to pay Mozilla to have Bing featured as the default search. Why give all that money to a competitor? That's the wrong question to ask, according to one of Chrome's developers.Peter Kasting, a Senior Software Engineer and a member of the Chrome UI team, got all riled up after reading MG Sielger's "Pay to Stay" piece, in which Sielger concluded that Google is "paying all that money to a competitor." His piece prompted a mini-rant from Kasting, who explained Google's reasoning in a Google+ post."People never seem to understand why Google builds Chrome no matter how many times I try to pound it into their heads. It's very simple: the primary goal of Chrome is to make the Web advance as much and as quickly as possible," Kasting said. "That's it. It's completely irrelevant to this goal whether Chrome actually gains tons of users or whether instead the Web advances because the other browser vendors step up their game and produce far better browsers. Either way the web gets better. Job done. The end."Kasting doesn't claim Google is a total Web evangelist. He points out that "Google succeeds (and makes money) when the Web succeeds and people use it more to do everything they need," so if that means supporting companies like Mozilla, then so be it."Because of this Chrome doesn't need to be a Microsoft Office, a direct-money-maker, nor does it even need to directly feed users to Google. Just making the Web more capable is enough," Kastings added.As Paul Harvey used to say, now you know the rest of the story.(source) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veboy Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 "Some people have been questioning why Google would dump nearly a billion dollars into a three-year search deal with Mozilla"Dump ? Firefox is still a popular browser and while Microsoft offers Mozilla some dollars for default search engine, Paying to Mozilla by Google iss not dumping nearly a billion dollars, It's just an small win against Microsoft. As mentioned in the article.But I'm wondering what if Chrome continue its user-share growing and beat Firefox completely in that 3 years ? What will happen to Mozilla ? I think this guy will change his mind in that case and the Chrome team does exactly like Apple or MS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 26, 2011 Administrator Share Posted December 26, 2011 But I'm wondering what if Chrome continue its user-share growing and beat Firefox completely in that 3 years ? What will happen to Mozilla ? Enjoy it till it lasts. ;)But don't forget, IE came back from dead with it's IE9. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beer Posted December 26, 2011 Author Share Posted December 26, 2011 Dump ? Firefox is still a popular browser and while Microsoft offers Mozilla some dollars for default search engine, Paying to Mozilla by Google iss not dumping nearly a billion dollars, It's just an small win against Microsoft. As mentioned in the article.I think in this context, dump was meant to suggest "suddenly dropping down a lot of..." instead of "disposing garbage." At least that I how I read it(besides 900 million isn't exactly pocket change ^_^).Edit:Firefox is my favorite/primary browser, but I think Chrome did a good job stirring up the browser competition. Before Chrome existed, Firefox's main competition was IE and IE's only competitive edge was being bundle with WIndows(and maybe compatibility with some legacy programs). I think Chrome has pushed Firefox to become even better, and I look forward to see the new plug-in management in Firefox 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avitar Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Google would pump money into firefox, because the engineers at chrome can't build a x64bit browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanon Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Chrome might prevail in the end. It's the coolest, and still the lightest. I just can't get past Firefox 3.6. :(I miss that one. Every single build after that one was a waste of my time, and my machine wouldn't budge when it ran...So I settled for Chrome. And I can't complain. So yeah, I think it just might beat in one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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