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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.
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.
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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,
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.
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.
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!
Sincerely;
-Grammar Nutsie
Paul Lenhart writes words!
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.
Young man, this is the sort of insolence up with which I will not put!
-W. Churchill (apocryphally)
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
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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