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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Browser? by Dr+Caleb · 2004-10-06 08:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Now it makes you wonder why Google registered gbrowser.com?
No it doesn't. They also registered googlesucks.com, but I don't think they feel that way about themselves.

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1. Re:Browser? by squiggleslash · 2004-10-06 08:04 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  They registered Googlesucks.com? This is clear evidence they're entering the vacuum cleaner market!
  
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2. Re:Browser? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-06 08:13 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  They registered Googlesucks.com? This is clear evidence they're entering the vacuum cleaner market!
  
  Crap! I was hoping it was an adult content search engine :(
3. Re:Browser? by polecat_redux · 2004-10-06 08:33 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  They also registered googlesucks.com
  
  It's called cybersquatting. They obviously want to extort money from someone who has a legitimate reason to register googlesucks.com.
4. Re:Browser? by whovian · 2004-10-06 09:04 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  They have both googlesucks.com and googleblows.com. But what is interesting to me is the apparent foresight they had in registering them:
  Domain Name: googleblows.net Created on..............: 1999-Oct-15. Expires on..............: 2005-Oct-15. Record last updated on..: 2004-Oct-01 21:03:44. Domain Name: googleblows.com Created on..............: 1999-Oct-15. Expires on..............: 2005-Oct-15. Record last updated on..: 2004-Oct-01 21:03:13.
  
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I'm not convinced by rafikki · 2004-10-06 08:03 · Score: 5, Insightful

If you look at all the new programs they've been putting out lately, the deskbar, the toolbar, the new Gmail Notifier etc. and realize that all that stuff could be very usefully integrated into a web browser... not to mention some of the stuff floating around in their Labs section. I suspect that's not the last word we'll here on a new browser.
Options by Kralizec · 2004-10-06 08:03 · Score: 5, Insightful

Now it makes you wonder why Google registered gbrowser.com?
Because every business likes to keep its options open?
why! by Coneasfast · 2004-10-06 08:04 · Score: 5, Interesting

Now it makes you wonder why Google registered gbrowser.com?

well, gmail caught so much attention to competitors and made them all increase their inbox limits. maybe they thought registering it will do the same and increase the quality of browsers on the market?

ok probably none of this is true. just a thought that came to my mind though :)

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normal trademark behavior by Speare · 2004-10-06 08:05 · Score: 5, Funny
Normal operating procedure with concepts nowadays:
- discuss idea at lunch
- register five variants of the name
- consider a few features
- focus test among friends over beer
- tell management
- make a powerpoint mockup
- focus test among friends' spouses over weekend
- issue a press release denying it
- ...
Why is this news?
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Is anyone keeping score? by TrollBridge · 2004-10-06 08:06 · Score: 5, Funny

So would this make Google more Evil or less Evil? Who's keeping track this week?

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1. Re:Is anyone keeping score? by rmarll · 2004-10-06 08:43 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  This is google's week to be good. IBM have the last week of the month, unless SCO has another press release, then they're good that week as well.
  Sun is good on all days that are multiples of 5 and evil on the 11th and 23rd of the month. When available they are evil on the 29th of February.
  I've lost track of Oracle but I think they alternate the 2nd and third weeks of the month. Microsoft is always evil unless Timothy posts the news, in which case Slashdot is evil for posting a duped story and MS passes go and collects their 200 bucks.
  
  It's incomplete but there is the rundown on the schedule as far as I can tell.
Browser War by pete-classic · 2004-10-06 08:06 · Score: 5, Insightful

If they believe in the browser war, why do they only support IE?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I belive that the tool bar and the gmail notifier are Windows/IE only.

-Peter
Re:nlookup so you wont have by TCM · 2004-10-06 08:06 · Score: 5, Funny

What are you doing on slashdot if you confuse nslookup and whois?

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Google Print, however.. by ackthpt · 2004-10-06 08:06 · Score: 5, Interesting

Google Print is a new book search (partnered with Penguin and Scholastic) they'll roll out formally on Thursday, in some more of this interesting little tango they have with Amazon (they of the a9.com search engine free of ads.)

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Cheaper than a trademark lawsuit... by drmike0099 · 2004-10-06 08:07 · Score: 5, Insightful

Registering and keeping your own names out of everyone else's hands is a much simpler and cheaper way to do it, rather than getting into nasty, expensive lawsuits later on over who gbrowser.com is owned by. How much did the Lindows lawsuit cost MS, both in terms of $$ and public good will?
1. Re:Cheaper than a trademark lawsuit... by justplainchips · 2004-10-06 08:28 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Microsoft had public good will?
Re:nlookup so you wont have by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-06 08:13 · Score: 5, Funny

"What are you doing on slashdot if you confuse nslookup and whois?"

At a guess, security-consulting for companies who confuse microsoft with secure software... ;)
There is no spoon by wuice · 2004-10-06 08:24 · Score: 5, Funny

Now it makes you wonder why Google registered gbrowser.com

Just to keep you fuckers guessing.
It won't be a web browser per se... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-06 08:28 · Score: 5, Interesting

Imagine a web browser that ties directly into Google. Or imagine Google as a part of YOUR network.. This application will do MORE then browse... it will serve all kinds of data. And there will be subscriptions for certain classes of data.... and well, let's just say it will be the prelude to a virtual office environment. Think Sharepoint or similiar, but not really. Not as crappy either. Google is in a race with m$ on these things... that is why you are seeing DENY DENY DENY, but rest assured, all of it is coming. The things on the board:

1. Browsing
2. Extended Search
3. Subscription Feeds
4. "Office" like sharing (whiteboard, wiki stuff)
5. File keeper (and you thought 1 gig was cool)
6. Multimedia capability
7. Mail (you have gmail already)
8. Journal (you've seen something like this too)
9. Social Networking (Orkut is just a rough idea of what is to come here, but think rolodex on steroids, in your address book)

And much much more. You see... I know things. I know what Google is doing, and it both amazes me, excites me, and scares me.

Thank god for stock options.
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.
other google domains by sadangel · 2004-10-06 09:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Google has also registered:

galbums.com
gbackup.com
gbeam.com
ggovernment .com
ggroups.com
ghomepage.com
ghomepages.com
ghoroscope.com
glistings.com
gschedule.com
gsen d.com
gtaxes.com

Go crazy with that if you want to. I particularly like ggovernment.com. Clearly google is planning on starting their own "ggovernment" to overthrow conventional governments and take over the world. They must be stopped!
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