Google Planning Web Browser? 387
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."
Re:Dupe (mostly) (Score:3, Informative)
The last Slashdot article about Google browser speculation is here [slashdot.org].
Offtopic? It's a link to the FIRST discussion (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Why the jump to OS? (Score:5, Informative)
Because Rob Pike was the developer of Plan 9 [bell-labs.com] at Bell Labs. His hiring by Google would imply they are looking to develop their own OS. Microsoft is trying to push in on Google's territory, so it makes perfect sense for Google to push in on Microsoft's territory.
Re:Advertising Tool? (Score:3, Informative)
gbrowser.com (Score:2, Informative)
Google was the first to present a useful search (Score:2, Informative)
Before the google search engine, the best we had was keyword index based lookups. Google blew the rest of the search engines out of the water with pagerank and the sheer genius of indexing by linked popularity.
Perhaps not a new idea in the world of scientific papers (where the number of papers referencing yours is the primary success indicator) but certainly a new idea when applied to the web.
If you don't think that counts as "new", then I challenge you to come up with a single example of something new.
Re:Why the jump to OS? (Score:5, Informative)
Page 7 of 10-Q (Page 12 of the PDF) lists the following revenue sources for the nine months ended September 30, 2004: So, out of their $2.1 billion revenue in nine months last year, just $35 million was from licencing their "very very good technology" and the other $2.1 billion was from advertising
Re:Why the jump to OS? (Score:2, Informative)