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Are you talking about eyeballs for search? Because that'd be included in the above estimate ($120m p/y for %100 of the market) assuming they're paying mozilla fairly for defaults. Do you mean something else? Like eyeballs on the browser itself?
I'm talking about targeting eyeballs for ads. By owning the browser, Google (who a media sales company) know more about you, and can generate a better yield for their customers (ie, advertisers).
I don't think this is an attack on Firefox over 50 million bucks. I think this is Google looking at the web and saying we need a faster, more stable, more rich, browser that has these 20 features to allow us to push our web apps forward. Their game is to make web apps equal to desktop apps so that they can sell advertising on them - and hammer Microsoft. This goes towards that goal. I'm looking forward to it. Firefox…
That seems to be what they are saying. However, Google does not have a good track record of delivering product for non-technical end users. GMail, their one succesful homegrown, mass-market, non-search product that I can think of, is a mess (haphazard user interface, no improvement for years, still beta). For such a strategic app, that is worrying. As for their platform vision, it also seems very scattershot. They ha…