Cynically? To keep the FTC and regional equivalents off their back by funding their competition (Mozilla, for example).
Genuinely? There are possibly a few teams within the behemoth of Google that actually do want to support the green software they use. The value of that support is probably small enough to be hidden in a departments costs so doesn't get noticed by the pigs in command.
I went to that picture to see what this muzzle looks like, saw that (it turns out AI slop) and immediately thought "those short bits are not nodes or internodes or even meant to look like them" like described in the text.
D'oh. I knew it wasn't quite the right quote.