A $50 Million AdSense Check?!?
 

How the Mozilla Foundation made $50 million from Firefox in 2005. Apparently, its an AdSense thing. Jesus Fucking Christ it must be nice to be them.

http://www.thetechzone.com/?m=show&id=662

wow ...new plan
im going to make a crazy browser

ya i saw that on digg

Wow, incredible.
WG

so, unbelievable!!!

it is for the firefox home page. they get adsense money for every paid search coming from the home page.

wholly shiznit

did you read the article?

it is the google search box installed in every firefox browser

that is amazing.......i am starting a porn browser right now

the funny part is people want the google bar on firefox. so even if google didnt pay them a penny it would still be there :)

not likely.. i bet 90% of it is from the search bar not the start page

eze got it. Their homepage is the google search bar. When people use it they get money, and a lot of people use it and dont change their homepage

jesus, do you all even read?

yes, the start page does give them money

but

They deserve it though. The browser's interface is superior to everything else including IE, and I use that search constantly

No shit, how many times has it been pointed out already and people still say "Yeah, its the home page." Fuck, I have used that damn search bar 1000s of times. And I'm just one user. Thats a pretty good little stunt, I do have to admit.

oh man, I use that search bar at least 20-30 times a day easy

yeah thats crazy!

The rich get richer

Google is, in a business sense, total fucking idiots for paying for that particular traffic. Not paying for it wouldn't greatly reduce the number of searches that google gets, and they have plenty of thier own toolbars installed on firefox browsers (I have one, example).

Most importantly, I don't think they would lose 80% of the firefox user searches... so they are over paying for what they would have gotten anyway.

Good on firefox, but if you are buying adwords, now you have another indication that Google is using some of the most expensive traffic aquisition methods around.

The thing is though RawAlex google have money to burn to why not spend it?

Shit !! Good for them !!

very leet

Total newbies

What does google care how much traffic costs if it has a line of buyers willing to pay more?

How does buying something and selling it for more make them idiots?
More clicks = More $ and we have no idea what the relationship is with them also paying out on firefox downloads with the google tool bar installed

I know I got them paid quite a few times.

Exactly, they aren't the idiots. We are, because we keep feeding them money.