Google To Pay Firefox Almost 1 Billion Dollars In Search Deal

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Google to pay Firefox almost 1 billion dollars in search deal

San Francisco - Google is to pay almost 1 billion dollars to Firefox over three years to remain the default search engine on the open-source web browser, according to The Wall Street Journal's All Things D blog on Thursday.

The collaboration was first announced Tuesday, without stating terms of the deal.

According to the report, the payment is more than three times as much as Google paid for its previous search deal with Firefox, which expired at the end of November and represented more than 84 per cent of revenue for Firefox parent company Mozilla.

The report said that Microsoft had tried to supplant Google as the default Firefox search engine by bidding aggressively for its own Bing search engine, but that Google eventually offered more.

-- The Nation 2011-12-23