Comment Re:Firefox not developed by Google (Score 1) 803
If Firefox defaults to Google, it is because the Firefox development team concluded it is a better search engine.
I'm really surprised this hasn't been brought up yet, and maybe not many people know, but this statement is completely false. A BIG part of the financial support for the Mozilla Foundation and Firefox comes from Google. Google pays Mozilla per download for the benefit of being the default search engine in the browser.
Does this change who's right and who's wrong? Maybe not. But it keeps me from having the blind faith in Google's altruism that most of these other posts are littered with.
I'm really surprised this hasn't been brought up yet, and maybe not many people know, but this statement is completely false. A BIG part of the financial support for the Mozilla Foundation and Firefox comes from Google. Google pays Mozilla per download for the benefit of being the default search engine in the browser.
Does this change who's right and who's wrong? Maybe not. But it keeps me from having the blind faith in Google's altruism that most of these other posts are littered with.
