Google Planning Web Browser?

Kick the Donkey writes "John Dvorak has just posted a very interesting, albeit hypothetical, analysis of Google's future directions. Citing the 'unusual' hires of Rob Pike (from Bell labs), Ben Goodger, and Darin Fisher (both from Mozilla) and the acquisition of the gbrowser.com domain, Dvorak speculates that a Firefox based Google browser and Google-OS may soon be coming to a cluster near you."

Comments

Hey, look

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a dead horse, let's go beat it.

Re:Hey, look

[MST3K]

Nah, you can do that by yourself. I tried it once, but the horse wasn't actually dead. My girlfriend thinks the hoof sticking out of my forehead is kinda sexy, though.

Re:Hey, look

[Ultra Magnus]

He didn't just beat a dead horse, he bought a stronger whip, changed riders, proclaimed "this is the way we have always ridden this horse," appointed a committee to study the horse, arranged visits to other sites to see how they ride dead horses, increased the standards of riding dead horses, declared that the horse is better, faster and cheaper dead, and finally, harnessed several dead horses together for increased speed.

Yes, they are

[Anonymous Coward]

I know for a fact. It will be announced in two months and four days.

Re:Yes, they are

[drdink]

I heard it will be a joint announcement between Apple and Google about a Google OS that has a Google Browser that runs exclusively on the new PowerBook G5s. THIS WILL BE AWESOME!!!

New Era

[Obiwan Kenobi]

Oh my God. I think that's the first time I've ever seen Google-OS in a /. headline (note: headline).

We've entered a new era.

I think a Google browser will be excellent, and a just imagining a Google OS makes me giddy. Yup, giddy.

Vendor Lock-in

[reporter]

The Machiavellian spirit in me says that Google is trying to creep into my desktop. The game plan apparently is to leverage Google's search fame into winning the web client market.

The web client is, in fact, the #1 application on the desktop these days. Literally, many people just click the "maximize" button after the browser is launched, and the web client occupies the entire surface of the screen. Off they go to read e-mail, look at porn, or cause a raucus on Slashdot by posting provocative articles.

Then, the next step for Google is to create Gunix (Google + Lunix), pronouced "goon-ix". With the Google client in place, you download Gunix and swap out M$ Window$.

Then ...

<waking up in a code sweat>
Google has a very good search engine, but I would prefer that Google stay off my desktop. I like Google just like it is -- a web site which I visit to read the latest news and to search for the best porn pictures.

The problem with Google taking over my desktop is that I would then be swapping one monopoly for another: Micro$oft. What I like about open source is the decentralization, anti-monopoly attitude of the folks behind the Free Software Foundation. This kind of environment tends to encourage programmers from all parts of the world to contribute her little bit to creating a peace of great software. No one group of developers becomes dominant like Micro$oft or eventually Google.

Re:Advertising Tool?

[mph]

(Before you criticize remember that this is also /.'s business model.)

Far be it from anyone here to criticize slashdot.

PROOF: Direct Link

[ShallowThroat]

"http://switch.atdmt.com/action/Google_Browser"


It MUST be true!

Re:What's with the stupid google predictions?

[smileyy]

They're planning on taking on Nintendo?

Coming soon

[Bite-lover]

Coming soon: Google-condoms and Google-brand suppositories!

Re:Coming soon

[c666hellchild]

And if the google-condom didn't work (whether technical failiure or due to the inebriation of user), would it implement a browser-like "go-back" button? Or if the experience went by to fast (inebriation),a "refresh" option to try it again.

Re:Why the jump to OS?

[euro_hiker]

actually - I heard from my aunt's friends friend who she met on jerry springer's son that Google are writing an OS.... and its based on FreeBSD and OSX, with full apple support and its all open source and free and the shareholders at Google have decided they've made enough money and are donating any money accidently made to charity.

Re:Why the jump to OS?

[justins]

His hiring by Google would imply they are looking to develop their own OS.

Or that they just wanted a really good engineer, one who happened to be available after the meltdown of Bell Labs.

Oh wait. That's a stretch. That they would hire someone just because they were a good engineer... crazy talk.

Re:Nope.

[sloanster]

Google's a search engine company, I don't want to see any other product from them.

Feel free to keep your eyes closed then.

I for one welcome our new google browser overlords.

Re:rebuttal

[suckmysav]

What is this "dumb" of which you speak and why would he want to fuck it?

Re:zerg

[The-Bus]

Yes, here they are, in chronological order:

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Re:In defense of Dvorak

[lsmeg]

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Re:Yeah

[Spekdah]

Napolean anyone? Or did I miss that hollywood flick that now made him American :p

Re:Why the jump to OS?

[Trejkaz]

My favourite variant is "Emacs is a fantastic OS, but it could really use a better text editor."