Will Google Launch A Browser?

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Will Google Launch A Browser?

Posted by timothy on Monday September 20, 2004 @12:21PM from the sweet-patooties-up-for-wager dept.

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."

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Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by heptapod · 2004-09-20 12:22 · Score: 5, Funny

But will the download be invite only?
1. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-20 13:05 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It will be nothing like the gspot.
2. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by TykeClone · 2004-09-20 15:00 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  All the other browsers combined are less than 5%. That included Opera, Konqueror, Lynx, and other oddities and unknowns.
  You'd consider Lynx a modern browser?
  
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Of course... by AngryParsley · 2004-09-20 12:22 · Score: 5, Funny

The NY Post is never wrong.
GBrowser by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-20 12:25 · Score: 5, Funny

I hear it's being developed in space.
Nope by DanThe1Man · 2004-09-20 12:26 · Score: 5, Funny

The company (Google) also hired four people who worked on Microsoft's Web browser...

Woooh! I think not.
Gindows by usefool · 2004-09-20 12:26 · Score: 5, Funny

At this rate, we'll see gindow.com registered by google.com in no time.

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Web-based web-browser by giminy · 2004-09-20 12:27 · Score: 5, Funny

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...

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Re:Open Source? by American+AC+in+Paris · 2004-09-20 12:36 · Score: 5, Funny

Can google compete with open-source options like mozilla and opera?
Yes.
("English for Geeks" Tip of the Day: To obtain verbose output, include the keyword how at the beginning of your query.)

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Re:Rich web apps by k4_pacific · 2004-09-20 12:40 · Score: 5, Funny

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...

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Re:Just part of the OS... by halivar · 2004-09-20 12:44 · Score: 5, Funny

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...
Sure Google's competing with Microsoft... by Symbiosis · 2004-09-20 12:48 · Score: 5, Funny

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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Google browser? Too awkward. They should... by truth_revealed · 2004-09-20 12:53 · Score: 5, Funny

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."
1. Re:Google browser? Too awkward. They should... by Vireo · 2004-09-20 14:25 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Growser? I think I'd prefer Broogle.
2. Re:Google browser? Too awkward. They should... by CrazyDuke · 2004-09-20 15:46 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Other possible projects:
  
  Gstring - an advanced C++ library that not only includes an inovative version of the string datatype, but has lightning fast, built in parsing and search commands.
  
  Gspot - a new and less expensive alternative to Starbucks coffee shops.
  
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3. Re:Google browser? Too awkward. They should... by DeBaas · 2004-09-20 19:23 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Gspot - a new and less expensive alternative to Starbucks coffee shops.
  
  Trouble is, you can never find it
  
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Re:Let me guess: by Bingo+Foo · 2004-09-20 12:55 · Score: 5, Funny

I dunno. If Google does come out with a new browser, it would half to offer something that I Just Can't Live Without
A grammar checker for text input boxes is something you might not want to live without.

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Re:Let me guess: by p4ul13 · 2004-09-20 13:40 · Score: 5, Funny

I simply half to halve a talk with ur teechers. They failed it.
Sincerely;
-Grammar Nutsie

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Re:Let me guess: by UnrefinedLayman · 2004-09-20 14:21 · Score: 5, Funny

"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.
Re:Let me guess: by Bingo+Foo · 2004-09-20 16:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Young man, this is the sort of insolence up with which I will not put!

-W. Churchill (apocryphally)

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