Tuesday, December 17th 2024
Mozilla Seemingly Prepares For Google Anti-Trust Lawsuit Fallout With New Search Partner
Mozilla and Firefox have undergone a slew of changes of late, with the non-profit laying off its entire advocacy team and subsequently working with a famous design house on a branding overhaul. At the same time, Google is facing a monumental US antitrust lawsuit that could see the search giant prohibited from paying to be the default search engine on a variety of platforms. Speculation until now has predicted that if Google loses the antitrust case, it would deprive Mozilla and Firefox of a massive revenue stream, effectively ending the Firefox browser as we know it.
Perhaps in preparation for this imminent change, Mozilla has just announced a new search partnership with Ecosia, the search engine that prioritizes privacy and environmental concerns. Mozilla didn't explain what the partnership entails, but the official announcement seems to suggest that Ecosia won't become the default search engine for Firefox, although the blog post does encourage switching to Ecosia as the default search engine. Ecosia advertises that it is transparent when it comes to its earnings, and it donates all of its profits to environmental conservation efforts. It also embodies many of the privacy protections that Firefox has historically been known for. A more cynical reading of the situation might suggest that this is simply part of Mozilla trying to save face after its recent layoffs and a round of bad news.
Sources:
Mozilla Blog, CNBC
Perhaps in preparation for this imminent change, Mozilla has just announced a new search partnership with Ecosia, the search engine that prioritizes privacy and environmental concerns. Mozilla didn't explain what the partnership entails, but the official announcement seems to suggest that Ecosia won't become the default search engine for Firefox, although the blog post does encourage switching to Ecosia as the default search engine. Ecosia advertises that it is transparent when it comes to its earnings, and it donates all of its profits to environmental conservation efforts. It also embodies many of the privacy protections that Firefox has historically been known for. A more cynical reading of the situation might suggest that this is simply part of Mozilla trying to save face after its recent layoffs and a round of bad news.
15 Comments on Mozilla Seemingly Prepares For Google Anti-Trust Lawsuit Fallout With New Search Partner
It's unfortunate but it's not realy feasable or reallistic to expect any upstart to be able to index the majority of world wide web and serve search results to compete with google and microsoft. Doing so would require a ton of resources that don't appear out of nowhere.
If this uses Google, I might give it a go
>>and it donates all of its profits to environmental conservation efforts...
This is the 1st time when I've heard about Ecosia! Seriously, how anyone could trust to a company nobody has heard about?
I've been using Bing as a search engine for a long time and it works good for me.
IMHO it's always hard to control if a new forest is planted sustainably far away though
But yeah, they've been around for quite some time and been in the news (positive connotation mostly) for some years in Europe. I'm not using ecosia myself, just wanted to give some info
>>...donates all of its profits to environmental conservation efforts...
How the Ecosia could do Any day-to-day operations when All of its profit transferred to another organization? The Ecosia must pay for: taxes, building where office / data center is located, salaries, etc, etc? There is Nothing for Free in our business world.
When there is No any money left for day-to-day operations, R&D, salaries, etc, a company collapses.
Swissair and Enron are two famous examples...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporate_collapses_and_scandals
Taxes, hosting, rents, etc, all that falls under expenses.