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This article on Firefox making $72 million astounds me:

…the for-profit Mozilla Corporation, made $72M last year and is on target to have 120 employees this year….Mozilla Corporation makes all that money because of the Google Search box on the top right. If you search with that box (which I do all day long) and you click on the Google ads on the results page Firefox gets ~80% of that. They also have Amazon in the search box, and other services that I’m sure kick them back some affiliate fees. Brilliant.

Firefox is great and all that, but shouldn’t I be receiving some of that money for my attention (yes, I’m that selfish)? Someone should invent a wrapper which intercepts all the websites that you go to (amazon, google, etc) and gives you the commission if you buy something.

Or maybe I should just accept that only comes out to like $3 ever year, acknowledge that I’m getting a great browser, and move on. I’m just jealous really.

This entry was posted on Monday, March 6th, 2006 at 12:20 pm and is filed under Random.