How Browsers Generate Revenues?

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We all use browsers for browsing the contents on the Internet. There are several browsers and each of them has its own userbase.

Have you ever got curious that how these browsers earn money?

Let’s, end this curiosity!


We will discuss the earning of popular browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge and Opera.

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is heavily sponsored by Google. Approximately, 95% of its earning is from donation.

Google pays around $562 Million for having Google as its default search engine.


Google Chrome

Google Chrome makes money by simply showing you ads in Google search results.

It also makes money by its paid premium services.


Apple Safari

Apple Safari is the best browser for Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Google pays around $12 Billion to Apple to set Google as the default search engine in Safari.


Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge is heavily sponsored by Bing.

Edge earns money by Bing search result advertisement revenue.


Opera Browser

Opera makes money through three revenue sources. The primary one is from search engines.

Yandex is the default search engine in Russia, and Google is the default search engine in the rest of the world.

It also earns money from Speed Dial sponsors.


But Manish, what about Internet Explorer?

Fun Fact: Approximately, 64% people uses Internet Explorer to download another browsers!

Its earning model is same as Microsoft Edge.


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