<story><title>Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-08/google-pays-enormous-sums-to-maintain-its-dominance-doj-says</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bogwog</author><text>&amp;gt;  The revenue-sharing deals that Google offers to browsers are essential to companies like Mozilla Corp., he said, because they offer their products to users for free.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “The reason they partner with Google isn’t because they had to; it’s because they want to,” Schmidtlein said.&lt;p&gt;Mozilla would disappear overnight if Google stopped paying them.&lt;p&gt;Good riddance IMO (even though I love FF and it&amp;#x27;s the only browser I use). They haven&amp;#x27;t been able to build a sustainable business despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars per year from Google. A flower shop on a street corner can get a better ROI. Mozilla&amp;#x27;s management is incompetent and shady.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patcon</author><text>Yeah, the Red Cross can screw right off. And libraries. Things should not exist in this world if they can&amp;#x27;t pay their own way...&lt;p&gt;Sorry, my words above feel gross. I don&amp;#x27;t normally write sarcastic comments, and I don&amp;#x27;t like to, but I was a little put off by the &amp;quot;good riddance&amp;quot; comment.&lt;p&gt;I just mean... aren&amp;#x27;t some entities cost centres that pay dividends later, sometimes non-monetarily. Kinda like children. Not everything needs to compete is the market and be judged a failure if it doesn&amp;#x27;t succeed through the single metric markets care about, right?&lt;p&gt;Anyhow, respect (despite my sarcastic start :) )</text></comment>
<story><title>Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-08/google-pays-enormous-sums-to-maintain-its-dominance-doj-says</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bogwog</author><text>&amp;gt;  The revenue-sharing deals that Google offers to browsers are essential to companies like Mozilla Corp., he said, because they offer their products to users for free.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; “The reason they partner with Google isn’t because they had to; it’s because they want to,” Schmidtlein said.&lt;p&gt;Mozilla would disappear overnight if Google stopped paying them.&lt;p&gt;Good riddance IMO (even though I love FF and it&amp;#x27;s the only browser I use). They haven&amp;#x27;t been able to build a sustainable business despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars per year from Google. A flower shop on a street corner can get a better ROI. Mozilla&amp;#x27;s management is incompetent and shady.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masterof0</author><text>I remember a comment from their CEO complaining that a 3 million USD comp was a &amp;quot;sacrifice&amp;quot; she was making because she believes on the mission. Totally insane.</text></comment>