Mozilla is silent on its agreement with Google

The Mozilla Foundation had a contract with the Google search engine which expired in November 2011. 88% of revenues came from royalties from this partnership, but no other agreement has been signed.Last week, Mozilla has declined to say whether he had renewed its contract with Google, its main source of funding that enables it to maintain its Firefox browser in business. The agreement between the Foundation and the Mountain View firm was to expire in November. When asked if he had negotiated a partnership with Google, Mozilla refused to answer. Instead, the publisher of Firefox released a statement that he had done before. "We currently have partnerships with a number of search engines that differ across markets, including major partners including Google Search, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Amazon, eBay and others," said a door speak for Mozilla in an email. "We also believe that these agreements will generate strong revenue for the Foundation in the near future. "
98% of its revenues in the year 2010
This statement is almost identical to that Mozilla had made earlier when he was questioned about his relationship with Google. The most recent took place in October 2010, on the occasion of the publication of financial results. In its 2010 report, Mozilla did not disclose the amount he had received from each partner search engines, but said that the payments represented 98% of its revenues in the year, 121.1 million over a total of $ 123.2 million. Mozilla receives income from search engines when Firefox users click on the ads placed on search results pages.
Firefox, which has long defined Google as its default search engine, has relied on his rival, Bing, for it generates most of its income. In 2008, the last time that Mozilla has listed the payments of its partners, he said that Google accounted for 88% of royalty income.
Questions about the dependence of Mozilla on Google were raised at the launch of the Chrome browser in September 2008. According to the companies StatCounter and Net Applications measures, Chrome holds 25.7 or 18.2% of global browser market in November, while the share of Firefox was estimated at 25.2% or 22.1%.