Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's Director of community development from 10 years, has suggested Firefox users to add Microsoft's Bing to the list of the browser's search engines after Google's CEO downplayed consumers' privacy concerns. Citing a clip from a CNBC broadcast last Friday, during which Google chief executive Eric Schmidt discussed online privacy, Dotzler provided a link to the Firefox extension that adds Bing to Firefox's search engine list. With this, one can easily switch Firefox's search from Google to Bing.
What made Dotzler's touting of Bing interesting is that Mozilla, which has a multi-year deal with Google that ends in 2011, derives the vast bulk of its revenue from the arrangement, which sets Google's search as the default in the browser and shunts some revenues from ads that Firefox users click on to Mozilla. According to Mozilla's most-recently-released financial statement, 97 percent of its revenues came from deals it has with Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and others. The lion's share of its search engine-based income, however, originated from Google
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