| >Don't try to build a house out of this argument, because the wolves are going to blow it away The core of my argument is that Google isn't stupid enough to risk their search monopoly just to prevent a browser monopoly, and you haven't even addressed that. >If the top search engine spot in Firefox would be so valuable, than there would be real bidding wars. There is a real bidding war, that's where the price Google pays comes from. The reason they don't get more is as you say, virtually no one uses Firefox. >Also, Yahoo offered more when both Firefox and Yahoo still mattered Really? In 2015 both Firefox and Yahoo probably had double their current user base, but that would still make them fairly insignificant players. Yahoo search had already been powered by Bing for years. >Do you know why Google spends more money on Safari? Because Safari has at least ten times more users than Firefox. I don't know why you think there needs to be more to this than "a person's default search engine is a valuable commodity that Google will pay even their competitors for." |