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How Do Companies That Develop Internet Browsers Make Money?(mozilla, Opera, Etc) by made2fit(f): 11:37am On Nov 28, 2013
Today, I was just wondering how these browser developers make money. I understand Google because it is a search engine and they have lots of adverts. But Mozilla and Opera, we use them free of charge and they spend a lot of money to develop and to release constant upgrades on their software. There are no adverts either.

Are they just charity organization that want to improve the lives of internet broswers?
Re: How Do Companies That Develop Internet Browsers Make Money?(mozilla, Opera, Etc) by ncpat(m): 2:23pm On Nov 28, 2013
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Re: How Do Companies That Develop Internet Browsers Make Money?(mozilla, Opera, Etc) by Nobody: 8:36am On Oct 17, 2014
made2fit:
Today, I was just wondering how these browser developers make money. I understand Google because it is a search engine and they have lots of adverts. But Mozilla and Opera, we use them free of charge and they spend a lot of money to develop and to release constant upgrades on their software. There are no adverts either.

Are they just charity organization that want to improve the lives of internet broswers?

Almost the entirety of Mozilla’s income arrives in the form of royalties from the Firefox search box, and the lion’s share of those royalties are paid by the default search engine: Google.

While it’s true that Mozilla strongly relies on Google’s royalties, don’t forget that Google is completely reliant on search traffic: 97% of it is derived from advertising. In other words, Google’s status as the default search engine for the majority of 450 million Firefox users directly translates into millions — and possibly billions — of dollars of revenue. It’s the same story with Opera, which regularly holds an auction for its default search engine: search traffic is worth big bucks.

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Re: How Do Companies That Develop Internet Browsers Make Money?(mozilla, Opera, Etc) by made2fit(f): 1:29pm On Nov 09, 2014
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Almost the entirety of Mozilla’s income arrives in the form of royalties from the Firefox search box, and the lion’s share of those royalties are paid by the default search engine: Google.

While it’s true that Mozilla strongly relies on Google’s royalties, don’t forget that Google is completely reliant on search traffic: 97% of it is derived from advertising. In other words, Google’s status as the default search engine for the majority of 450 million Firefox users directly translates into millions — and possibly billions — of dollars of revenue. It’s the same story with Opera, which regularly holds an auction for its default search engine: search traffic is worth big bucks.
This helps, thanks.

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