Google is offering an easy way of earning extra dough to their developers. Google Chrome users are likely to enjoy a bug-free service from the web browser as Google has openly announced that it will pay anywhere between $500 and $1337 to the developers who spot a bug either in Chrome or Chromium. Nevertheless, the amount will vary depending on the severity of the security hole discovered, fair enough.

The bugs that fall under the “particularly severe” or “particular clever” are likely to fetch higher amount. Before Google came up with this offer, there have been a number of researchers who have been contributing to the Chromium project for free. The rationale behind introducing the offer is to encourage more number of researchers to participate. There is more to it in this whole business.

The participants are clearly instructed not to reveal the bug publicly before they report to Google and, Google in turn will resolve the issue in a reasonable time-frame. If you are interested in contributing to this program, you can do so by filing your bugs using the Chromium bug tracker. To avoid confusions, Google will reward only the first reporter of the bug. So, this is a rat race again. So, you had better watch out your steps carefully!

Via: ReadWriteWeb\Google