John Doerr Disclaims Rumored GBrowser

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John Doerr Disclaims Rumored GBrowser

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 6, 2004 @08:00AM from the no-recollection-of-that-no-sir dept.

iseff writes "Contrary to the rumors which have been circulating, John Doerr (VC and early investor in Google) told the Web 2.0 conference that although he believes in another browser war, Google won't be a part of it. Then again, he did say he didn't know everything that goes on at Google, even though he's on the board. Now it makes you wonder why Google registered gbrowser.com?"

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nlookup so you wont have by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-06 08:03 · Score: 2, Informative

MarkMonitor.com - The Leader in Corporate Domain Management For Global Domain Consolidation, Research & Intelligence, and Enterprise DNS, go to: www.markmonitor.com The Data in MarkMonitor.com's WHOIS database is provided by MarkMonitor.com for information purposes, and to assist persons in obtaining information about or related to a domain name registration record. MarkMonitor.com does not guarantee its accuracy. By submitting a WHOIS query, you agree that you will use this Data only for lawful purposes and that, under no circumstances will you use this Data to: (1) allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission of mass unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations via e-mail (spam); or (2) enable high volume, automated, electronic processes that apply to MarkMonitor.com (or its systems). MarkMonitor.com reserves the right to modify these terms at any time. By submitting this query, you agree to abide by this policy. Registrant: Google Inc. (DOM-1278108) 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 US Domain Name: gbrowser.com Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com Administrative Contact: DNS Admin (NIC-1467103) Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 US dns-admin@google.com +1.6503300100 Fax- +1.6506188571 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: DNS Admin (NIC-1467103) Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 US dns-admin@google.com +1.6503300100 Fax- +1.6506188571 Created on..............: 2004-Apr-26. Expires on..............: 2006-Apr-26. Record last updated on..: 2004-Apr-26 16:46:39. Domain servers in listed order: NS1.ALLDOMAINS.COM 64.124.14.32 NS2.ALLDOMAINS.COM 209.25.143.102 MarkMonitor.com - The Leader in Corporate Domain Management For Global Domain Consolidation, Research & Intelligence, and Enterprise DNS, go to: www.markmonitor.com
Generic Genome Browser : gbrowse by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-06 08:06 · Score: 2, Informative

http://www.gmod.org/ggb/gbrowse.shtml

Google's going to do for the genome what they did for the internet?
Re:6 gmail invites by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-06 08:09 · Score: 0, Informative

these are NOT gmail invites, do NOT click on them... trust me you will be sorry.
DO NOT CLICK !!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-06 08:10 · Score: 0, Informative

goatse style noise
Re:Browser War by jeffskyrunner · 2004-10-06 08:12 · Score: 2, Informative

the notifier now has an option to choose which browser to open. I have set it to firefox. Windows? Because the mass majority of the people are using windows. Plus, I believe there are many unofficial Linux versions of this. Unofficial Toolbar for Mozilla/firefox.

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Jeff
Re:Browser War by kisielk · 2004-10-06 08:38 · Score: 3, Informative

The notifier FAQ says they are working on versions for OSX and Linux.
Gonna try this again by Azureflare · 2004-10-06 08:56 · Score: 5, Informative

I've tried posting this multiple times and it always gets buried... hopefully other gkrellm users who use only gmail will take notice of this. So far this is my favorite monitoring method for gmail.
Here's a little hack I made for gkrellm. It works pretty well. I was working on creating a plugin for monitoring multiple gmail accounts. It has some bugs still, but it works pretty well (it's basically a hack of mailwatch, and I've added in the revolving penguin too!). I've stopped working on it since school started, and because there has been so little interest in it. I'm considering putting it up on sourceforge.net so someone can clear out the bugs for me. Note that this tutorial is oriented towards linux newbies; if you know a bit about linux you can skip over a lot of material.
Monitor a Gmail Account with gkrellm.
BTW The toolbar is pretty much meaningless in firefox; we've already got popup blocking and we also have the google search bar up by the address bar.
Re:If google intends to compete with MS by ndrtkr · 2004-10-06 09:14 · Score: 2, Informative

If google intends to compete with MS and IE then it's stupid for them to try and make their own browser. However it is VERY smart to throw all their weight and resources into making mozilla so killer it blows IE out of the water.

dude, let me correct you; FireFox already IS killer enough and it's ALREADY blowing IE out of the water...

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Conspiracy Theories Abound by mcguyver · 2004-10-06 09:34 · Score: 5, Informative

While I cannot provide consipiracy theories or tinfoil hats, I can provide all URLs hosted under the same IP as google.com. Look at cashcarrier.net - maybe google wants to replace all US currency with 'Google Currency' or Gurrency!

http://www.1aad.info http://www.Googlie.com
http://www.466453.com http://www.Googlr.com
http://www.Anatsociety.com http://www.Goolge.com
http://www.Arnes.biz http://www.Gooogle.com
http://www.Basystem.net http://www.Gppgle.com
http://www.Beckers-erkelenz.com http://www.Gppglr.com
http://www.Bootboortz.com http://www.Guugle.org
http://www.Brucer.com http://www.Hakukone.com
http://www.Cashcarrier.net http://www.Hakukone.net
http://www.Cbfl.net http://www.Igoogle.com
http://www.Cheapbits.net http://www.Jamesallen.org
http://www.Clinilab.net http://www.Kedrowski.com
http://www.Cmbio.com http://www.Kvanderson.com
http://www.Davenorman.net http://www.Mendiboure.com
http://www.Encouragementtogo.com http://www.Minzhu.org
http://www.Europraca.net http://www.Mugenjyou.com
http://www.Foofle.com http://www.Mydejanews.com
http://www.Gewgle.com http://www.Nickel-tec.com
http://www.Gewgol.com http://www.Ogogle.com
http://www.Ggoogle.com http://www.Paracelsus.org
http://www.Godsc.com http://www.Parallelstorm.net
http://www.Gogle.com http://www.Partycat.us
http://www.Gogole.com http://www.Pclaninformatica.com
http://www.Googel.com http://www.Reinspiredinc.com
http://www.Googil.com http://www.Scandiq.com
http://www.Google.biz http://www.Securityf2.com
http://www.Google.com http://www.Signacon.net
http://www.Google.info http://www.Sinoweblog.com
http://www.Google.net http://www.Smartp
Re:tf kind of record is this? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-06 10:28 · Score: 1, Informative

Some of us understand how whois works and we really don't need too.

For those of you who are easily amused try whois microsoft.com
Re:Browser War by jimmyharris · 2004-10-06 10:45 · Score: 2, Informative

FreePOPs is a great utility which allows you to check webmail (including Gmail / Hotmail / any Squirellmail based site) as if it were a standard POP3 account.

It runs on Linux, OS X and Windows. If anyone is interested, I've written a guide for installing and using FreePOPs with OS X and Apple Mail or Microsoft Entourage.
Re:Domain names by Kirth+Gersen · 2004-10-07 02:58 · Score: 2, Informative

Didn't it seem *suspicious* to you that somebody had registered it minutes before?

Many of the sites which claim to offer free domain name lookup services are *actually* in the business of *selling* your desired names to people who contract to grab domain names automagically based on certain rules. I'm guessing that when you checked the name a second time it triggered a grab. He probably paid about 50 cents to grab the name. What was the site you used to check/register your new domain?