Can you simply avoid anti-trust issues by paying a competitor to stay in business?
Firefox’s sale of their search box, purchased by Google for three years and one billion dollars (give or take) has to be driven by something, especially as it’s three times what they were paying before. They’ve left behind “do no evil” so until I read otherwise, I’ll go with MG Siegler’s answer that they’re ensuring Firefox doesn’t damage their business by (a) going to Bing, or (b) going away and leaving Chrome as the dominant web browser… and Google open to Anti-Trust issues.
