Google Browser

davej

The rumour mill is starting about the possible development of a Google Browser.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3680942.stm

I just did a whois gbrowser.com and got back:

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.

Serious challenge to microsoft you think? Gmail,GIM,Gplayer,Gbrowser

davej

seamus

Next step - GOS, based on BeOS?

andersde10

Sounds interesting, anyone gonna predict what crazy ideas they'll come up with.

anthonymcg

andersde10 wrote:

Sounds interesting, anyone gonna predict what crazy ideas they'll come up with.

You can't use any other search engine?

Capt'n Midnight

Seeing as how they are a commercial company..

How can they use it to generate revenue without ads / subscription / upfront cost / defaulting to google

( And if it will be based on mozilla , won't it have to be open source , and if they are poaching IE developers it ain't for quality control )

stevenmu

I'm sure it'll have a built in version of the google toolbar so you easily type in a search and be taken straight to a google results page. It'll probably have stuff like telling you if you have any gmail and a button to take you straight there too. So really it'll just be drawing more eyes to their already revenue generating content.

OfflerCrocGod

I just cant see the commercial gain they can get from this, but it will be more then likely based on Firefox - Google are no friends to M$ and they have hosted a Moz Developer Conference before. They only reason I can see for this is to try and break open the browser market and hurt M$.....can you imagine the take up of FireFox Google if they posted it on their search page :eek: M$ would sh1t itself.

ThreadKiller

They have image software too...

segadreamcast

They've had that since they acquired blogger, no?

suppafly

stevenmu wrote:

I'm sure it'll have a built in version of the google toolbar so you easily type in a search and be taken straight to a google results page. It'll probably have stuff like telling you if you have any gmail and a button to take you straight there too. So really it'll just be drawing more eyes to their already revenue generating content.

Mozilla firefox has all of those features already.

.....can you imagine the take up of FireFox Google if they posted it on their search page M$ would sh1t itself.

that would be cool

davej

Yeah, Google could really clear up if they had a link to their new applications on their home page.

The new generation of "search" that's developing is very interesting. The likes of A9.com giving you a search "account" which lets you organise and manage your searching tasks. Automatic searching of resources like imdb.com and library catalogues etc.

It would be interesting to see google offering a suite of integrated tools which would basically cover all aspects of internet usage (and a lot more besides). Much like the way MS does it for the office environment. Doing clever things like allowing you to mount your 1gb of gmail space as a remote filesystem, Google Instant Messaging and Browser with a remembrance agent would all be very cool..

davej

andersde10

I reckon once they have the browser they might build in some sort of local machine search into it. that'd be kinda cool.