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Blake Ross of Firefox has lost trust in the ‘don’t be evil’ search and advertising giant Google. In a recent blog post on blakeross.com, he describes how Google is foregoing is prior position of allowing the cream to surface to the top in lieu of promoting its own tools. The example he uses is searching for the phrase ‘photo sharing’ in Google returns a tip on the top of the page promoting their photo sharing tool Picasa.

Although Picasa is a fine tool for sharing photos but it is certainly not the best of breed. This probably has some to do with Blake’s new company Parakey whose goal is to make media sharing and various common Web tasks seamless to the normal Web user.

For those of you who have been reading up about the ‘Open Source’ browser Firefox, They have recently formed a for-profit company called Mozilla Corporation at mozilla.com for the sole purpose of distributing the firefox browser. Every time someone uses the Google search box from within the browser, Mozilla Corp gets a kick back from Google. Just in last year alone, they got 72 million dollars worth of kick backs.

If you don’t feel like supporting this google/mozilla kickback system anymore like myself, add this alternative search box to your firefox embeded search engines…

Click to Install the No $$ for Firefox Google Search Box