Thread: Kindle Fire Default Search Engine: Microsofts Bing
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Old 09-09-2012, 11:41 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by Andrew H. View Post
Companies pay *big* money to be the default search engine. Google recently agreed to pay Mozilla $300 million per year (for the next three years) to have Google remain the default search engine on Firefox. It was apparently 3 times more than they paid previously because MS was bidding against them.

So the Fire may have less trouble breaking even than one might think.
Must be big money in people (you and I) using a particular search engine. Wish I had a tiny bit of it. After all we are the end users.
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