IN THE OFFICE center in Mountain View, California, in the executive Mozilla can see Google's headquarters from various directions. Googleplex building, a headquarters for the giant search engine company that dominates the scenery in the area.
"Physically, we are surrounded by Google," said Mitchell Baker, head of the Mozilla Foundation releases Mozilla CEO position last year, cited from Business Week.
More than that, in fact, Google's name is also clearly visible in all balance sheet Mozilla, engine manufacturers Firefox web browser and a number of other software. His course, these two companies agreed to put the Google search engine on the default position in the Firefox toolbar. Google is also really enjoy the position.
Up to now the agreement is still to provide benefits for both parties. Google donated more than 88 percent of income Mozilla, which reached USD75 million in 2007. The Mozilla successfully grab users from Internet Explorer, the larger the opportunity merengkuh market for Google search engine.
Known as plural, Firefox web browser is the most widely used Internet Explorer after Microsoft besutan. Based on the data that belongs to Net Applications, Firefox currently control 22 percent of the browser market, is still far below the Internet Explorer of the 67 per cent.
However, the extent to which relationships both Google and Mozilla will survive since the start is September 2008 ago, when Google introduced garapannya own web browser, Chrome.
The executive at Mozilla are forced to play the brain to think how to get income other than rely on Google. Moreover, the contract with Google will soon be ended in 2011, and likely Google will not memperpanjangnya.
"They can decide the contract or they may decide not to update it," said Baker.
Its position is now increasingly obvious, Firefox needs Google more than Google needs Firefox. "And that will be memorable when Chrome just get more and more users," said Ray Valdes, research director at Gartner (IT).
There are several alternative options other than Google. Mozilla also has to weigh the possibility of menggandeng other search engines such as Yahoo! belonging to Microsoft and MSN. Both are rival Google. "There are likely other search engines that can give us money," said Baker.
Women called complete Winifred Mitchell Baker also confess at this time there are companies that offer themselves to be a substitute for Google. However, he sure was not Microsoft.
Perginya clear that Google will bring the risk for Mozilla. John Battelee, an observer of the Internet, said partnering with search engines is just a way for Mozilla to gain income. There are many ways to get money, which have not been thought. "It is not difficult to get money from the browser business," he said.
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