01.07
In a post over at Jerkface Playhouse he points out that with Google having it’s own browser (Chrome), and the Firefox deal about to expire, will Google continue to pay for their position as default search?
I think the answer would have to be a resounding Yes, because imagine if they didn’t and Microsoft then got Bing as default search* on Firefox? I really hope it happens just because the fallout in the FOSS community would be hilarious** – can you even get Chrome on Linux yet? Anyway I don’t think Google would allow this to happen so I am saying that the deal will probably be renewed.
* Firefox gets 85% of it’s cash from Google. They’d really have no choice but to take Microsoft’s money unless someone really unlikely like Yahoo bought in.
** I would be laughing for weeks if this happened. I wouldn’t even change the default. 
Yes you can get Chrome on Linux yet. It’s not too shabby.
And as funny as it would be, FF has a significant market share and I don’t think G would want to risk giving all those searches to Microsoft.
L O L Kerb, thank you for this excellent short read ! It never occurred to me yet that this is in fact quite sound business logic.
But yeah, I admit that I’d really love to see Bing hook into Firefox just – as the saying goes – to gloat at all those GNU/Fanboyx get upset