Re: Having search engines pay for being default search engine in epiphany, deskbar applet etc

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

Stormy,

If you can get this arrangement with Google I think it would be great.

Indeed market share of epiphany is tiny as others say, but Google paid
Mozilla  66M$ in 2007 [1]. So if the marketshare of epiphany is only
0.02% ( for every 1000 firefox users there is only 1 epiphany user and
assuming that firefox has 20% market share) it already would amount to
66K$ per year, which is huge for the foundation

Furthermore there is quite some potential for higher market share with
stuff like the online desktop, which in my opinion has a large
potential because a lot of functionality is moving to the web.

Jaap

[1] http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/19/google-makes-up-88-percent-of-mozillas-revenues-threatens-its-non-profit-status/

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 15:25, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:
> I'm happy to work with Google to get an account for the GNOME Foundation.
>
> We'll need to pull in the right developers to get their support for putting
> it Epiphany or where ever else we have search options ...
>
> Stormy
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap haitsma org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Mozilla is making loads of money by having google as their default
>> search engine. Marketshare of epiphany is much lower but if it is
>> already a couple of thousand dollars a year I think it would be worth
>> the effort.
>>
>> Good idea?
>>
>> Jaap
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