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by jedieaston 2183 days ago
A hypothetical Chrome Inc. (or Chrome Foundation) could make its money off of selling rights to the search bar (hypothetically to Google anyway), and, I suppose, donations. Enterprise support would be another thing they'd have to provide (and could sell), especially if they got the Chrome OS project.

It'd be a speed bump, and they wouldn't have the full resources of Google, but I think it could make it. (But I don't know if it should, the open-source Chromium base isn't committed to only by Google.)
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ocdtrekkie 2183 days ago
And bear in mind: The amount they make this way could adjust, Google would have to be prepared to outbid Bing for default search placement. Bearing in mind, that whoever is the default search engine on Chrome controls the Internet, there's a lot of money at stake.
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LatteLazy 2183 days ago
That's fine, but to out bid bing, you only have to outbid bing. Microsoft have been forced to divest under this new antitrust regime. A maybe yahoo or askjeeves will come to the rescue?

And remember, to improve chrome extension support, you need chrome to get more money from the new sponsor than they got from the Google, one of the richest companies on earth...

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LatteLazy 2183 days ago
But it needs to more than make it. It needs to increase revenue to spend more on correctly policing and supporting its extension store...
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