Google-Watch no longer recommends Firefox
Google-Watch once had a link behind the image, to download Firefox.
But they sold their soul, and we no longer recommend them.
In June 2005, we read that a Silicon Valley blogger with alleged insider information was reporting that the Mozilla Foundation was raking in $30 million annually from their Google connection. To substantiate this figure, we asked the tax-exempt Foundation for a copy of their Form 990. They are required by law to provide copies. We want the correct figure for their 2004 Google income, and are also curious about whether they filed a 990-T to pay taxes on this sum as "unrelated business income."
The Foundation tells us that they have filing extensions that give them until November 2005 to file this form, and no information is currently available. Various officers have declined to comment on their Google income to reporters over the past several months. Their 2003 form shows total revenue of $2.4 million from donations that helped Mozilla Foundation get started, and that seems reasonable. But if we're talking tens of millions from Google in 2004, this changes the character of their operation considerably.
On August 3, 2005, the Foundation announced that they are restructuring by spinning off the Mozilla Corporation, a for-profit subsidiary. This tends to confirm the rumors about tens of millions of dollars from Google.
In the past week I watched two of my blog posts advance to the #3 position on Google, but then they vanished! They didn't recede as one would expect, they were removed and I believe this was done because I don't have Google ads on my blog.
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