Mozilla Corporation is rumoured to have made $72M last year through Firefox and the Google Search box. Christopher Blizzard, a board member of Mozilla Corporation has said that the amount quoted is ‘not off by an order of magnitude’.


Mozilla Corporation is rumoured to have made $72M last year through Firefox and is on target to have 120 employees this year. Christopher Blizzard, a board member of Mozilla Corporation has said that the amount quoted is ‘not off by an order of magnitude’.

Jason McCabe Calacanis, has reported on his blog, “Mozilla Corporation makes all that money because of the Google Search box on the top right. If you search with that box (which I do all day long) and you click on the Google ads on the results page Firefox gets ~80% of that. They also have Amazon in the search box, and other services that I’m sure kick them back some affiliate fees. Brilliant”.

Calacanis has also added an update: “The $72M someone told me at BarCampLA and I have no idea if that is true or not. If you reblog this (or report it) please make sure you make that clear”. [source]

Christopher Blizzard has posted on the company blog: “I won’t comment on the dollar amount except to say that it’s not correct, though not off by an order of magnitude. I also won’t comment on sources of that money, except to say that some of the assertions that I’ve seen in the comments are pretty far off, both in terms of numbers and sources”. [source]

 

 

 

 

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