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Let me give an example: offering users choice at all times is very important to us. Right now, Flock already works with a wide range of blogging platforms (Wordpress, Six Apart and Blogger), but, as of yet, we don’t offer a choice of social bookmarks providers or photo sharing services. Fixing that is a high priority. Our goal is to always offer users a number of choices, and, in addition, allow them to plug in any service that supports a standard, in the same way that the Firefox and Flock searchboxes and the Flock blog editor already do.
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Huge businesses (like AOL Search) and thousands of niche online ventures alike are built around Google and Yahoo’s adword programs. These same business models are now providing the financial footing for web browsers. Opera’s CEO recently explained that his company was able to release the browser for free thanks to an expanded search sponsorship arrangement with Google. The Mozilla Foundation has alluded to search related business arrangements and has created a for-profit subsidiary. These success stories show that even simple search “distribution” integration points in the browser can provide a solid financial footing for browser providers, and do so in a way that enhances the user experience (remember, the search box was added to Firefox because users needed a faster way to search online). In sum, we’re quite comfortable that, if enough users choose our browser, we can keep the lights on here at Flock without violating user’s privacy or compromising the user experience
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