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Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:58:19 David Rosenthal Mozilla was the nonprofit organization that was founded and spun off from Netscape when AOL bought Netscape.
- ▶ 1:58:37 David Rosenthal But then once Firefox actually gets released by Mozilla and deployed out there,
- ▶ 1:58:44 David Rosenthal The way Google starts supporting Mozilla and Firefox is through paying traffic acquisition costs to them to be the default search in the Firefox browser.
- ▶ 1:59:02 David Rosenthal Firefox is where this all starts with Mozilla.
- ▶ 1:59:04 Ben Gilbert Actually, traffic acquisition costs originated before Mozilla because it's effectively the same thing that they were doing with software vendors to include Google Toolbar.
- ▶ 1:59:34 Ben Gilbert But yes, Google has a long history of paying for distribution of their search engine and the new form that it is now taking is the Mozilla Firefox browser.
- ▶ 1:59:59 David Rosenthal So, a couple years, Google's paying Mozilla for default search in Firefox, basically funding Mozilla.
- ▶ 2:00:15 David Rosenthal Firefox engineers at Mozilla to come and work at Google directly, but they position this as like, essentially this is the same thing.
- ▶ 2:00:23 David Rosenthal We are still funding Mozilla and Firefox, just like, you know, you're Mozilla, you can't give these employees, these engineers stock options, like you're a nonprofit.
- ▶ 2:00:50 David Rosenthal This team that comes over from Mozilla into Google becomes the core of a new, quote, product client group within Google.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:45:22 Ben Gilbert They famously did a deal to become the default search engine in Firefox just as it was becoming popular, which served as Mozilla's main revenue source for decades.