Will Google Launch A Browser? 984
ServeYourWorld writes "The
New York Post is reporting that 'Based on the half-dozen hires in recent
weeks, Google appears to be planning to launch its own Web browser and other software
products to challenge Microsoft.' I took a guess and did a whois search for Gbrowser.com
and indeed Google Inc. is listed as the registrar."
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. (Score:5, Funny)
Of course... (Score:5, Funny)
Hmm (Score:2, Funny)
It gets even better (Score:5, Funny)
Google is launching a new OS based on Gloucestershire health clubs! Come on now, not even MS or Apple has thought of that one. [grins]
GBrowser (Score:5, Funny)
Nope (Score:5, Funny)
Woooh! I think not.
Gindows (Score:5, Funny)
'Will Google Launch A Browser?' (Score:5, Funny)
Long answer : Yes.
Web-based web-browser (Score:5, Funny)
I suspect that they will begin offering a web-based web-browsing solution (like gmail, but for HTTP) with roughly a gigabyte of bandwidth usage per day. This will no doubt be great competition for the other web-based web browsers, like
Er, wait a second...
Searching (Score:3, Funny)
Dear Google (Score:1, Funny)
And it's working... I had a GOrgasm in my pants when I read this story!
-Letter
Trademark registered yet? (Score:3, Funny)
Welcome to the next evolution for the WWW (Score:2, Funny)
Will it use pigeons to display web content? (Score:5, Funny)
The power of G baby (Score:5, Funny)
As other fellow
Can't find the damn thing anyway.
Re:Open Source? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes.
("English for Geeks" Tip of the Day: To obtain verbose output, include the keyword how at the beginning of your query.)
Re:GBrowser (Score:2, Funny)
Work is progressing on the development of Gbrowser. Unfortunately, the progress is excruciatingly slow, due mainly to the fact that Gbrowser's being developed in space and that our computer's won't freaking stay on our damn desks!
Unrelated to Gbrowser, it was a sad day yesterday when one of my coworkers and best friends took a walk outside the Google Lunar Building and forgot to wear his magnetic boots (as Google has laid down metal sidewalks). Consequently, he floated off into space, and we expect him to collide with Mars in a few years.
Re:Rich web apps (Score:5, Funny)
You won't need to keep a browser installed on your PC anymore. Wherver you are, you can just log on to http://browser.google.com with, um, oh wait...
Ginx (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Just part of the OS... (Score:5, Funny)
I think it's safe to say they've got big plans.
Little do you know, the G in GNU really stands for "Google's New Unix". They also own Gimp, Gnome, GTK, and Gator. That last one was just an insidious plot to create demand for their new pop-up blocking toolbar. Smart cookies, they are...
Re:Of course... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Of course... (Score:2, Funny)
"Yes I make mistakes. Don't we all?"
Sure Google's competing with Microsoft... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:My guess... (Score:5, Funny)
> never caught on save for a few custom corporate apps.
Not to mention millions of spyware products.
Gspot? (Score:2, Funny)
Google browser? Too awkward. They should... (Score:5, Funny)
I can already see how it will revolutionize the english language:
Joe: "Hey Hank, did you growse that info?"
Hank: "Yeah, my growser growsed it up real good."
Joe: "That's some mighty fine growsing, Hank."
Re:Let me guess: (Score:5, Funny)
A grammar checker for text input boxes is something you might not want to live without.
In other news... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. (Score:5, Funny)
To avoid this problem... (Score:3, Funny)
GNOME browser, image viewer & mail client doesnt start with 'g' but start with 'e'
Re:Google browser? Too awkward. They should... (Score:4, Funny)
- I used my growser to google for that info and gmail it to my friend.
Re:GBrowser (Score:5, Funny)
Keep your eyes out for (Score:3, Funny)
Re:GBrowser (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Let me guess: (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, but it gives you a gigabyte of bookmarks :)
Re:Let me guess: (Score:2, Funny)
Nope. Parent poster is correct. You clearly half to be educated a bit more.
Re:Rich web apps (Score:2, Funny)
There is no HTML.
There is no PDF.
There is no Flash.
There is only XUL.
EMacs Toolbar... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ginx (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Let me guess: (Score:5, Funny)
Sincerely;
-Grammar Nutsie
Google is trying to buy Opera. [NT] (Score:1, Funny)
Google Announces new Wireless Hotspots! (Score:1, Funny)
Sorry.. Had to say it.
1999 called. They want their joke back (n/t) (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I honestly hope... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Gindows (Score:5, Funny)
Konqueror already does this. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Let me guess: (Score:5, Funny)
A grammar checker for text input boxes is something without which you might not want to live.
I mean, if pedantry's your thing or anything.
Re:Sure Google's competing with Microsoft... (Score:3, Funny)
Ok, Google gets "Goo", Gnome gets "Gno", and some can insist that they both use "GNU/" instead.
Re:Google browser? Too awkward. They should... (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder.... (Score:2, Funny)
I guess "don't be evil" doesn't mean... (Score:1, Funny)
Bring out your browser! (Score:4, Funny)
internet explorer: I'm not dead yet!
opera: Ie Iesu domine! *thwap*
internet explorer: I'm getting better!
Re:Invite only... (Score:3, Funny)
Not everything with G attached will be associated with Google...
Like Gspot... Unfortunately for slashbots though, that too is invite only ;-)
Re:Let me guess: (Score:1, Funny)
You misspelled "you're".
Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. (Score:5, Funny)
You'd consider Lynx a modern browser?
Re:Gindows (Score:1, Funny)
There's probably a joke to be made involving joe, but I'm already ashamed of this one.
Re:Let me guess: (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. (Score:1, Funny)
He was listing all browers that visited their site. Only a handfull were "supported", but they still logged all of them.
Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. (Score:5, Funny)
If I had a mod point for everytime someone said that...
Re:Google browser? Too awkward. They should... (Score:5, Funny)
Gstring - an advanced C++ library that not only includes an inovative version of the string datatype, but has lightning fast, built in parsing and search commands.
Gspot - a new and less expensive alternative to Starbucks coffee shops.
Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Let me guess: (Score:5, Funny)
-W. Churchill (apocryphally)
Re:Lynx is modern (Score:2, Funny)
Hence, by some definitions Lynx is more modern.
Handfuls of seeds? (Score:3, Funny)
From article:
"Google's strategy is to throw a handful of seeds and to see what grows," he said.
Or you could also say Google's strategy is to throw handfuls of shit and see what sticks
tit for tat (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't it more likely that Google is developing a browser as a defensive tactice? Something like this:
ring, ring
Sergey: Hello?
Gates: Hello, Google. This is Bill Gates! We're going to release a search engine built right into IE, which is built right into Windows! Ha ha! You guys are pwned! Who's going to bother to load up Google now, when you can just click the shiny search button in our browser (plus Google no longer renders right)
Sergey: That's funny. We're going to release a browser, with our search built right in. Think people would rather use MSN or Google for search? Do you think their search choice would guide their browser choice, or vice versa? And oh yeah, it doesn't work with streaming WMP. Who knew?
Gates:...
Sergey: And what happens to your dreams of internet domination when folks switch to our browser en masse, cause oh yeah, btw, it doesn't have security issues like IE?
Gates:...well we didn't really want to do search...
Sergey: Well! We didn't really want to develop and support a browser!
All: It seems like we've come to an agreement then!
Sergey: Have I mentioned Goffice? Online word processing, search all your documents by content, 1GB of guaranteed storage...
Re:Google browser? Too awkward. They should... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Rich web apps (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Google browser? Too awkward. They should... (Score:5, Funny)
Trouble is, you can never find it
Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. (Score:5, Funny)
To configure your printer, you'd go to the URL device:printer/printername/ and if you don't know which printer queue goes to your Canon, you just search for "Queue Printer Canon" and press "I feel lucky".
Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. (Score:1, Funny)
And coming next (Score:3, Funny)
wait for it...
GSpots
Re:Konqueror already does this. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Google browser? Too awkward. They should... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Google browser? Too awkward. They should... (Score:5, Funny)
Try asking the guy in the canoe in front of that bush over there.
Re:Easy, rebrand firefox (Score:2, Funny)
i'll choose solid 100MB from Yahoo over a gig of vaporware from Gmail, thank you very much.
Re:Google browser? Too awkward. They should... (Score:3, Funny)
The line from H2G2 is "sass that hoopy Ford Prefect."
I'm now going back to reveling in my dweebdom...