No Google Browser

[mike]

WebProWorld hasn’t been alone in predicting the possible development of a Google browser. Based on what I’m reading today however, it appears as though there isn’t going to be any such thing any time soon. Although many considered the development of a browser to compete with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to be the next logical step after email (Gmail) and desktop search (Google Desktop Search), Google obviously feels differently. In an interview with the Financial Times, Google chief exec Eric Schmidt said plainly; “We are not building a browser”. I guess that’s that then huh?

[webmasterjunkie]

Like it matters if I agree or not. Google is obviously the goal of every search engine optimizer out there. They know it, Microsoft knows it, Yahoo knows it along with everyone else.

Taking a bite out of the "browser apple" fo Google right now, makes no sence. The war they are fighting now on Desktop Searching with Microsoft is one that they have a lot of battles to win.

I would have to guess that Google has not "given up" on building a browser. Just put it off for a very long time. After all in this article they already have already picked the worms out of the "apple."

[ZenWarrior]

Would you give Microsoft definitive advance warning about anything you were developing? And, it better be more a worthwhile product than their desktop search app. However, what confuses me is why, even if Microsoft is dominant, Google limited even the beta release of its desktop search essentially to only Microsoft products.

I don't use Word or Excel. And since the G's desktop search indexes only Adobe and Microsoft file extensions, I have no need for it. In fact, Google's new search and so incorrectly highly-touted product left at least one-third of my files unindexed and unfindable.

Copernic Desktop Search is far superior, but alas, did not receive even one-tenth the fanfare when it was released 6 weeks ago. I guess that's evidence of more dot-com IPO blindness.

[greeneagle]

Why would they spend untold millions developing a browser that no one would trust after the Feds filed an anti-trust suit?, when they have the market "hands down" for every main browser anyway?

If they had their own browser wouldn't there be a backlash of sentiment believing they were targeting the algs for their own browser?

Surely they are smarter than that!

Ken

[iamrussell]

"We will never go public"

[mike]

Originally Posted by ZenWarrior

Copernic Desktop Search is far superior, but alas, did not receive even one-tenth the fanfare when it was released 6 weeks ago. I guess that's evidence of more dot-com IPO blindness.

I did my part

[kservik]

Originally Posted by Mike

WebProWorld hasn’t been alone in predicting the possible development of a Google browser. Based on what I’m reading today however, it appears as though there isn’t going to be any such thing any time soon. Although many considered the development of a browser to compete with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to be the next logical step after email (Gmail) and desktop search (Google Desktop Search), Google obviously feels differently. In an interview with the Financial Times, Google chief exec Eric Schmidt said plainly; “We are not building a browser”. I guess that’s that then huh?

Why build a browser, when they can buy Opera?

[Chris]

in the words of lee corso:



not so fast, my friend.

battelle and mozilla news may still have something to say in this matter.

:)

bring on browser war 2...

[flood6]

Originally Posted by CRich

battelle and mozilla news may still have something to say in this matter.

Nearly all of the potential features mentioned in those scraps of speculation are already available to FireFox users in the form of community extensions. For all I know they are all available as extensions (some of that stuff I don't care enough about to have ever looked for an extension for).

Second, Mozilla needs to be careful. If any of this is true and Google comes waltzing in and steps all over the extensions that the community has produced by reworking them and slapping a multi-colored "G" on them, Mozilla might find themselves with a community ready to look elsewhere. Google could dork it up, too.

I guess it is similar to the corporate attention Linux has been getting recently. It's important for the companies to be sensitive to the communities, and equally important for the communities to realize that if they want to support their browser, they are going to have to expect some corporate influence.

Why am I commenting on this GBrowser speculation again?

I don't know...if G is really going to make a "FireFox distro" they are going to have to find more interesting stuff to put in it than that which was mentioned in those articles.

I'll also offer a wager, I'll bet you dollars to donuts it will only work on Windows.