You didn't answer the question. You're phrasing this as a proxy war and pretending the focus is the proxy.
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Chrome Engineer Explains Near Billion Dollar Investment in Mozilla
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You didn't answer the question. You're phrasing this as a proxy war and pretending the focus is the proxy.
you have again failed to illustrate any connection between crashing another company to remove competition and investing heavily in that same competitor.
I'm pretty sure the information they collect through Chrome is pretty damn valuable to Google.
If it wasn't, you would've been able to opt out completely.
So while having a more robust internet app platform than IE is surely in their best interest, I think they stand to gain a lot from moving users from FF to Chrome, so I'm not really buying the premise in the OP 100%.
If it wasn't, you would've been able to opt out completely.
So while having a more robust internet app platform than IE is surely in their best interest, I think they stand to gain a lot from moving users from FF to Chrome, so I'm not really buying the premise in the OP 100%.
Information gathered from the search page is sooo much more valuable and in supply than anything Chrome gathers. That's why it makes so much sense to invest in FF.
Google understands the internet. They know the open source developers of FF make the world go round and they won't "relocate" outside open source. Without them the development of the web slows putting a lot of pressure on the giant company like Google. Google doesn't want FF gone. The web needs FF or rather the theory of FF development and Google knows that.
That sounds weird to me.
I mean, the information they collect from the browser is a super set of what they can collect from the search engine server side.
And why would they get into that whole privacy landmine if it's not really important to them?
Google doesn't need to get 100% market share with Chrome as long as the other share is using fast, powerful browsers to use their products i.e. the stuff Google actually makes money on.
With Mozilla as an ally they control a growing 45% of the market with the two most advanced browsers. Google is happy the way it is.
With Mozilla as an ally they control a growing 45% of the market with the two most advanced browsers. Google is happy the way it is.
As others have stated, it's a win win.
Google spends that money, but ensures it stays on top and doesn't let Bing in. More users is more customers. Consumers win because they are using a better product through FF. Regardless Chrome is naturally pulling users away from FF anyway.
As the industry grows, Google gets a share of that growth, regardless.
Google spends that money, but ensures it stays on top and doesn't let Bing in. More users is more customers. Consumers win because they are using a better product through FF. Regardless Chrome is naturally pulling users away from FF anyway.
As the industry grows, Google gets a share of that growth, regardless.
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Lol wut, Google needs Mozilla more than Mozilla needs Google. Mozilla could easily switch to MS/Bing with no effect on their operations whilst Google losing Mozilla would mean that they would instantly lose tens of millions of users.
More users are on search than Chrome. What stuff can they gather from Chrome that they can't from search? You also have to remember that most users are stupid and are not like us. They don't use the address bar as much as they should and will Google search "Facebook" instead of going to facebook.com. Ads also gather traffic information on lots of other websites. I'm not saying that what Chrome gathers is not important, just that information from search is so much more important that it justifies investing in a Chrome competitor.
What privacy landmine are you referring to? The user agreement for Chrome?
Article implies that they paid way over what Microsoft was willing to pay. So it is obviously not just that.
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