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Google-Mozilla Deal Not Dead Yet

  • CNET, Tuesday, December 6, 2011 11:56 AM

Mozilla and Google are reportedly renegotiating an ad-revenue sharing deal based on searches that Mozilla sends to Google. Last renewed in 2008 for three years, the deal was set to expire last month. But, it didn’t. "We can confirm that we still have an agreement with Mozilla," Google said in a statement to CNET, this week. Meanwhile, Mozilla tells CNet: “Our search relationship with Google remains positive for both of us. We are in active negotiations … We have every confidence that search partnerships will continue to be a strong and growing generator of revenue for the foreseeable future.”

The problem for Mozilla, however, is that Google’s own Chrome browser is gaining steam -- even though CNet doesn’t seem to believe that Google is out to dominate the market. “The overall objective of Chrome is to speed up the Web and improve it as a foundation for applications, not to squeeze other browsers off the Internet,” it writes. Still, perhaps in response to Chrome’s rise, Mozilla recently introduced Microsoft's Bing as a search-engine option with Firefox 4 earlier, and released a version of Firefox with Bing as the default search engine.

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