Google To Enter Browser Wars
How cool is Google.
First they develop hands down the best search engine in the history of the Internet.
Then they created Gmail, a web-based e-mail client that offers an amazing 1 gig of storage, and in the process force other web mail providers like Yahoo and Hotmail to up their storage capacities in order to compete.
Now, mere weeks after their IPO on the NASDAQ, rumors have surfaced that Google is in the process of designing it's own web-browser to compete with Microsoft's Internet Explorer(IE).
Adding fuel to the fire is the fact that Google has registered the domain name Gbrowser.com, hired a top Java developer from Sun Microsystems, snapped up four coders who helped create IE for Microsoft and more importantly scooped one of Microsoft's main programmers who was working on Longhorn - the next version of windows scheduled for release in early 2006.
Officials with Google of course will not comment on whether or not Gbrowser is in fact in development, however based on their track record and the fact that they earned $1.67 billion through their IPO, I would say Gbrowser will definitely be a reality.
PS - As a side note the first person to comment on this blog entry will receive a Gmail invite.
First they develop hands down the best search engine in the history of the Internet.
Then they created Gmail, a web-based e-mail client that offers an amazing 1 gig of storage, and in the process force other web mail providers like Yahoo and Hotmail to up their storage capacities in order to compete.
Now, mere weeks after their IPO on the NASDAQ, rumors have surfaced that Google is in the process of designing it's own web-browser to compete with Microsoft's Internet Explorer(IE).
Adding fuel to the fire is the fact that Google has registered the domain name Gbrowser.com, hired a top Java developer from Sun Microsystems, snapped up four coders who helped create IE for Microsoft and more importantly scooped one of Microsoft's main programmers who was working on Longhorn - the next version of windows scheduled for release in early 2006.
Officials with Google of course will not comment on whether or not Gbrowser is in fact in development, however based on their track record and the fact that they earned $1.67 billion through their IPO, I would say Gbrowser will definitely be a reality.
PS - As a side note the first person to comment on this blog entry will receive a Gmail invite.
posted by James Mason at 8:15 PM
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