How did Firefox make a profit of about 6.3 billion yen?

He is the CEO of Moziila CorporationMitchell BakerMr.blogAccording to the plot made clear, the profits obtained from Firefox and Thunderbird in 2005 will be $ 52.9 million, about 6.3 billion yen. It is amazing to raise this profit with open source.

Most of this revenue was derived from search engines, specifically Google, that they earned revenue in exchange for building a search engine in the search window on the upper right of Firefox. Even in September 2006 we are surely talking about the same things at the press conference and it was an article in every direction, but it will do it ....

What is going on in fiscal 2003, 2004, etc., is as follows.
Mozilla's 2005 revenue: $ 52.9 million | News.blog | CNET News.com

In fiscal 2003, the revenue was 2.4 million dollars (about 280 million yen), and in fiscal 2004 it was 5.8 million dollars (about 690 million yen), so it increased explosively in fiscal 2005. I have not touched on the last year, that is, the fiscal year 2006, but it seems that at least it has increased since 2005.

What is worrisome is how much revenue is raised in Firefox.

Firefox - A $ 50 + Million Cash Cow

According to the above blog, when searching from the search bar of Firefox, Google's AdSense is displayed in the search result, and it seems that 80% of them are profitable of Mozilla when the Firefox user clicks on it. It also makes profit from the following Firefox start page.

Mozilla Firefox start page

In addition, since concrete numerical values ​​are listed in the PDF file on the following page, you may understand to some extent if you care about how much Mozilla executives or executives pay.

Mozilla Foundation Documents