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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 10:19 AM EDT |
That's it, I've cracked the Code!
Bing is the partner giving search
hits bucks to Google!
For the humor impaired: Skip it!
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: ais523 on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 06:13 AM EDT |
Just checking the list in an uncustomized-by-me Firefox install…
Google: search URL contains "rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official"
Yahoo!: search URL contains "fr=moz35"
Bing: search URL contains "form=MOZSBR&pc=MOZI"
Amazon: search URL contains
"sourceid=Mozilla-search&tag=firefox-uk-21"
Chambers UK: search URL was broken, but contains
"sourceid=Mozilla-search"
eBay: nothing immediately identifiable as referring to Mozilla or Firefox in the
URL, although there are some arbitrary numbers in it which may or may not be
meaningful
Twitter: search URL contains
"partner=Firefox&source=desktop-search"
Wikipedia (english version): search URL contains
"sourceid=Mozilla-search"
I'm guessing that the "sourceid=Mozilla-search" is a default tag that
Mozilla add in order that sites can identify where their traffic is coming from,
but most of the other URL fragments look quite strongly like they're indicating
the source of the search for some sort of referral program. As such, it seems
like a reasonable guess that Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Amazon, and Twitter are all
providing revenue to Firefox for the searches, and perhaps eBay too. (I also
think it's very likely that Wikipedia isn't.)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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