Google giving more money away.
Google has decided that it has too much money, so it’s going to give it all away – $1 at a time.
“We looked at our bank account, and were like, ‘holy shit, where did all those zeroes come from?’” said Sergey Page, co-founder of the search giant. “Clearly we have way too much money to know what to do with, so we thought, why not give it away?”
How will Google be giving away their money? By paying the people who refer users to their Mozilla Firefox downloads, which come bundled with a copy of the Google Toolbar.
Larry Brin explained Google’s rationale in more detail:
“Well, you know we love sticking it to those folks at Microsoft, so we tried to think of what would piss them off most. Naturally, we chose to support Firefox. It even works in Linux!”
As of last quarter, Google has over US$7.8 billion, enough to give one dollar to every man, woman and child on the planet. It is not known how many of them are already Firefox users.
via Uncyclopedia
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[...] As you all probably know, there’s currently a massive campaign to make people switch from Microsoft Internet Explorer to Firefox. It’s about time, I think. Even Google has gotten on board and wants to pay $1 for each new Firefox user you convert. One site I found amusing was the Kill Bill’s Browser site, which has a list of good reasons you should switch to Firefox. [...]
IT Girl » Annoying Internet Explorer users said this on November 20, 2005 9:37 pm