| http://phys.org/news/2016-01-google-...n-iphones.html
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So what? Did you know that nearly all the profits
Mozilla makes come from $1/per download
paid by Google to get default search installed on
Firefox? Mozilla is supposedly a non-profit, yet I
think their income is now up to something like
$300 million/year. The money has corrupted them
and now they're losing customers because they don't
listen to what people actually want. (Notably, it
started with the Mozilla people hiding the ability to
block 3rd-party images -- ads.)
Mozilla is now actually being paid off by Yahoo,
but the deal is pretty much the same.

Google is gigantic and they go to great lengths
to stay that way. Apple is stunningly greedy and
always happy to sell out their customers. It's a
perfect match. The real question is.... do you just
go along and accept the "assignment" of Google
search? Do you just type into the address bar of
your browser compliantly and let Google track you,
thus making their payments worthwhile to them?
It's up to you to stop the corruption.

Their methods have made them unequivocably
top dog. On my own website I get an average 60-100
top search engine visitors per day. My site is very much
geared toward Windows users and Windows programmers
or sys admins. Yet nearly all searchers arrive from Google.
For each 100 Google searchers there are perhaps 1
each from Bing or Yahoo. An occasional DuckDuckGo
or ISP search. But they're all a drop in the bucket
compared to Google. Google also has a very skewed
system of rating pages -- putting a high value on
incoming links and frequent updates, in order to favor
big, commercial pages. So Google's payouts are only
a small part of the story. A bigger, though less obvious,
part is how Google shapes the Internet itself. Many
smaller, non-commercial websites have nearly disappeared.
They might still be there, but they're invisible if Google
doesn't list them. .... So if you're still using Google
search then you're part of the problem that you're
implying by advertising their Apple "bribe".