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Will Google Launch A Browser?
ServeYourWorld writes "The
New York Post is reporting that 'Based on the half-dozen hires in recent
weeks, Google appears to be planning to launch its own Web browser and other software
products to challenge Microsoft.' I took a guess and did a whois search for Gbrowser.com
and indeed Google Inc. is listed as the registrar."
But will the download be invite only?
The NY Post is never wrong.
Firefox might actually get some competition then?
Check out GOS.com.
Google is launching a new OS based on Gloucestershire health clubs! Come on now, not even MS or Apple has thought of that one. [grins]
I hear it's being developed in space.
Woooh! I think not.
At this rate, we'll see gindow.com registered by google.com in no time.
Uselessful technology (Air-Charged
Short answer: No.
Long answer : Yes.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
I took a guess and did a whois search for Gbrowser.com and indeed Google Inc. is listed as the registrar.
...
I suspect that they will begin offering a web-based web-browsing solution (like gmail, but for HTTP) with roughly a gigabyte of bandwidth usage per day. This will no doubt be great competition for the other web-based web browsers, like
Er, wait a second...
The Right Reverend K. Reid Wightman,
I guess we know what their default search engine will be ;D
And it's working... I had a GOrgasm in my pants when I read this story!
-Letter
Hopefully this time they will think to register the trademark early. But just in case, I'll just go ahead and submit this here application for Gbrowser, my new line of eyebrow glitter!
The GInternet.
I never spellcheck and I freely admit it. Save your karma for more worthwhile "lol erorrs" replies
That would be awesome, but incredibly messy.
-Randy
Well, it certainly seems like Google is taking over everything that's G. Yes. You read that right. Eventually, everything that starts with the letter 'G' (or 'g') would be owned by Google.
/.ers have already suggested in previous posts and including the article, some of the ideas include gbrowser, gos, gthis, gthat, ginternet and gindows amongst others. Well, it all sounds fine and dandy. Now I just hope they will leave the gspot out of their jurisdiction.
As other fellow
Can't find the damn thing anyway.
Free XBox, PS2
Yes.
("English for Geeks" Tip of the Day: To obtain verbose output, include the keyword how at the beginning of your query.)
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
Well, with the recent explosion of web based applications like Gmail, it was only a matter of time before someone developed the web-based browser.
You won't need to keep a browser installed on your PC anymore. Wherver you are, you can just log on to http://browser.google.com with, um, oh wait...
Unknown host pong.
how about Gunix, OS G, GOS, Gwindow, fireGox, Gorefox...
There is a spark in every single flame bait point.
Google also owns the domains "GOS.com" "Gporn.com" "Goffice" and "Gword"
I think it's safe to say they've got big plans.
Little do you know, the G in GNU really stands for "Google's New Unix". They also own Gimp, Gnome, GTK, and Gator. That last one was just an insidious plot to create demand for their new pop-up blocking toolbar. Smart cookies, they are...
but what about poor GNOME? We're going to run out of g-based application names! Time to develop a new g-based naming system that expands the address space...
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.
-- Dr. Seuss
> Similarly, this is why (thank goodness) ActiveX
:)
> never caught on save for a few custom corporate apps.
Not to mention millions of spyware products.
I'd be more worried about Goatse.
call it the "Growser".
I can already see how it will revolutionize the english language:
Joe: "Hey Hank, did you growse that info?"
Hank: "Yeah, my growser growsed it up real good."
Joe: "That's some mighty fine growsing, Hank."
A grammar checker for text input boxes is something you might not want to live without.
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
In other news... Google plans to get into the interactive pron business with their innovative "gspot" web-based application...
To avoid this problem...
GNOME browser, image viewer & mail client doesnt start with 'g' but start with 'e'
-- Hasbullah bin Pit (sebol)
Googzilla... - Rob
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Yeah, but it gives you a gigabyte of bookmarks :)
Nope. Parent poster is correct. You clearly half to be educated a bit more.
Remember...
There is no HTML.
There is no PDF.
There is no Flash.
There is only XUL.
Karma: Segmentation fault (tried to dereference a null post)
Well after they came out with the EMacs toolbar, i pretty much knew anything was possible....
--an unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys--
Sincerely;
-Grammar Nutsie
Paul Lenhart writes words!
Google is trying to buy Opera.
Now you too can look at porn for free at 54 MB/s at your closest G-Spot!
Sorry.. Had to say it.
Subject says it all...
Maybe it's not for us, maybe it's for those poor saps who think Firefox is a Pontiac?
like the subject says Konqueror can already check the spelling but not the grammer to good
me fail english? thats unpossible
"A grammar checker for text input boxes is something you might not want to live without."
A grammar checker for text input boxes is something without which you might not want to live.
I mean, if pedantry's your thing or anything.
Will they have a google bar? :P
A moral objection to porn. Registrant: Google Inc. (DOM-258915) 2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy Mountain View CA 94043 US Domain Name: googleporn.com Registrar Name: Alldomains.com Registrar Whois: whois.alldomains.com Registrar Homepage: http://www.alldomains.com
man with cart: Bring out your browser!
internet explorer: I'm not dead yet!
opera: Ie Iesu domine! *thwap*
internet explorer: I'm getting better!
Not everything with G attached will be associated with Google...
Like Gspot... Unfortunately for slashbots though, that too is invite only ;-)
I simply half to halve a talk with ur teechers. They failed it.
You misspelled "you're".
So if everyone thought like you and realized that everyone doesn't think like you, where would we be?
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
Young man, this is the sort of insolence up with which I will not put!
-W. Churchill (apocryphally)
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
Modern means newer. My lynx binary was compiled 6 months ago. My IE binary was compiled 3 years ago.
Hence, by some definitions Lynx is more modern.
From article:
"Google's strategy is to throw a handful of seeds and to see what grows," he said.
Or you could also say Google's strategy is to throw handfuls of shit and see what sticks
Isn't it more likely that Google is developing a browser as a defensive tactice? Something like this:
ring, ring
Sergey: Hello?
Gates: Hello, Google. This is Bill Gates! We're going to release a search engine built right into IE, which is built right into Windows! Ha ha! You guys are pwned! Who's going to bother to load up Google now, when you can just click the shiny search button in our browser (plus Google no longer renders right)
Sergey: That's funny. We're going to release a browser, with our search built right in. Think people would rather use MSN or Google for search? Do you think their search choice would guide their browser choice, or vice versa? And oh yeah, it doesn't work with streaming WMP. Who knew?
Gates:...
Sergey: And what happens to your dreams of internet domination when folks switch to our browser en masse, cause oh yeah, btw, it doesn't have security issues like IE?
Gates:...well we didn't really want to do search...
Sergey: Well! We didn't really want to develop and support a browser!
All: It seems like we've come to an agreement then!
Sergey: Have I mentioned Goffice? Online word processing, search all your documents by content, 1GB of guaranteed storage...
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$tar -xvf
It bother's me so greatly to s'ee people adding random apostrophe's just becau'se there's an 's's in the word...
Google will be starting franchised public WiFi access points called...
wait for it...
GSpots
so i have to download yet another desktop gmail client, only to have to wait perpetually for someone to send me a gmail-invite.
i'll choose solid 100MB from Yahoo over a gig of vaporware from Gmail, thank you very much.