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sharkweek on Nov 19, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: New Search Strategy for Firefox

Realistically it's because DDG can't pay the bills

ke7ofi on Nov 20, 2014 [–]

DuckDuckGo’s or Mozilla’s?

SamReidHughes on Nov 20, 2014 | [–]

Mozilla's.

spikels on Nov 20, 2014 | | [–]

Google paid Mozilla around $275 million in search royalties in 2012, the latest year Mozilla has released financials.

Source: https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla_Audited_Fi...

90% of $305 million in royalties (see page 4 and Note 8)

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