[yukichan]

> Who would have thought between Microsoft and Google that sending search traffic artificially to a search engine would be a > $4B/year business?

Many toolbars make all their money that way. Ask Partner Network, Conduit. Mozilla makes their money this way, in fact I bet a huge chunk of that cost you see there is the Mozilla deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

[ChuckMcM]

I am really curious if they consider the money they pay to support the Mozilla foundation as "paid distribution." I could see how it would come out like that, but I could also argue from an accounting standpoint that it should be part of the 2.39B$ they paid to "Network Members". It might be a good question for their next earnings call though.