Mozilla Exec: Use Bing, not Google
The whole “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place” speech by Google CEO Eric Schmidt continues to have effects. Most recently it pushed Mozilla executive Asa Dotzler to tell Firefox users to ditch Google for Bing, praising the latter for having “a better privacy policy”.
This is big, because Mozilla and Google have had a historically strong relationship. Google has been the default search engine on Mozilla’s Firefox for many years now, and the browser has enjoyed exposure via Google’s push to attract converters from Internet Explorer—at least right until something called Chrome came around. In fact, the majority of Mozilla’s income for last year (around 97%) came from payments from Google and other big websites to be included into Firefox’s search engines by default.
In any case, what do you think of Schmidt’s “admission”? Personally, you can never fault a CEO for being honest, especially when he’s professed a willingness to follow the laws of the countries he operates in—like the Patriot Act in the US.
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