Google still brings 86% of revenue to Mozilla

The latest financial statement of Mozilla revealed that Google still drives 86% of revenue to the open source company. In an audited financial statement for 2009 Mozilla lists an unnamed search company (as in previous years) under "concentrations of risk." In 2008, Google accounted for 91 per cent of Mozilla's revenues, so the risk has dropped.

"The Corporation has a contract with a search engine provider for royalties which expires November 2011," the statement says. "Approximately 86% and 91% of royalty revenue for 2009 and 2008, respectively, was derived from this contract."

Besides, the report states that the unnamed search-engine provider represented 71 per cent and 80 per cent of 2009 and 2009 receivables, respectively.

Total revenues in 2009 for Mozilla accounted for $104 million, up 34% from the previous year. Mozilla says that a "majority of Mozilla revenue continues to be generated from the search functionality included in Mozilla's Firefox product from organizations such as Google, Yahoo, Yandex, Amazon, EBay and a handful of others."