Google is creating a browser!

[stymiee]

How can you possibly know that.

Easy, Google said so.

[asp_funda]

How can you possibly know that.

I'd say that it was an educated guess. Google search is written in Python & its either running on UNIX or LINUX as they certainly aren't running on Windows or Mac(& what a Mac is, its just another flavour of UNIX)!!

[DCS]

Why does this come as such a suprise? Google has made public statements for years that they were doing R&D into all sorts of computer and net related things.

and yes you can bet they are going to do all they can to make income. they are a publically traded company now which means they have stockholders to answer to and like any other business their whole purpose is to make money!

[asp_funda]

rightly said.

[megamanXplosion]

No they are not free to block a browser if they are in public domain. If its an intranet or that sort of thing which is restricted to only few, then its ok but if they are for general public, you can't block out a browser intentionally. The example being the recent law suit by Opera Software against Microsoft as Microsoft allegedly blocked out Opera users from MSN & then it had to pay Opera a good deal of money to have the law suit withdrawn.

If someone decides to block a browser, it is basic freedom of speech and personal liberty. It is not unlawful to block a browser or send it broken pages. Microsoft didn't get sued because of broken/blocked pages, they got sued because of monopolistic slander against Opera Software (intentially breaking the pages in Opera to make Opera users convert back to Internet Explorer and making Opera Software look bad), which is a completely different scenario.

If it was impossible to send broken pages to users, we would see TONS of lawsuits flying about. I would more than likely be involved in quite a few of them myself, because the majority of my CSS experiments are Opera-only because no other browser can handle the stuff I throw at them. The day that it's unlawful to send broken pages to the users is the day innovation on the internet halts to a complete stop.

[Jehu]

I think someday we might find that we're running the same OS google is, and that we're part of thier system. We'd be searching our own files with thier system, etc. There'd be much less difference between the desktop and browser as far as Gmail-like apps are concerned.

Google has a massive supercomputer with a map of the web on it, right?

Google's Aleph, to borrow a term from William Gibson...

[idoubt]

very soon i will have to change the picture of bill and put page's picture in my wallet. These google guys are really amazing.
gmail is probably the next great thing after hotmail.
keep it up guys.

[barcode]

I stated that Google ran on Linux and was asked:

How can you possibly know that.

See this article http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,54504,00.html

Brin's keynote, titled "The Open Source Tsunami," was a detailed explanation of how and why Google chose to work with Linux.

"Google uses Linux everywhere, on servers and on desktop machines for all of our technical employees," Brin told the crowd. He explained that Linux was chosen because it "offers us the best price-for-performance ratio, plus it's great to be able to customize any part of the operating system whenever we want to."

Sergey Brin is Google's Co-Founder & President, Technology

Also see http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue59/correa.html

OLinux: Currently, Google search engine runs in more than 5000 Red hat Linux servers. I read that Google system install and configure 80 servers at a time. What kind of tools coordinate this mass installation? What are the administrative tools used to monitor, check and replace servers failures? How is Linux used at the Google Projects? Why was Linux choose to improve Google search engine?

Sergey Brin: Actually, we currently run over 6,000 RedHat servers.

Linux is used everywhere...on the 6,000+ servers themselves, as well as desktop machines for all of our technical employees. We chose Linux because if offers us the price for performance ratio. It's so nice to be able to customize any part of the operating system that we like, at anytime. We have a large degree of in-house Linux expertise, too.

Most of our administrative tools were developed in-house, as well.

That's some of the reason why it's possible for me to know this. It is also fairly common knowledge.

[DZman]

very nice post madeonmoon!

I think both IE and G-browser have downfalls. We just have to wait and see what google is up to. Who knows? it could be something good.

[anjam]

All what i can say is the google guys are amazing. They deffinatly have brains and a big back pocket full of money. In any case that combination is lethal however they also have the small matter of the name google behind them which basically gives them the privlidge to put that name on anything and it will sell!

[LorenBaker]

I do not think Google would have to serve AdSense in their browser, they could easily sugest relevant search results as GMAil does and is testing, UCMore also does this.

So if one is on SitePoint, Google Browser may suggest other development forums...etc.

Adding AdSense would steal from the show. The ability to showcase Google search and other features to the millions of users who would probably download it in the first days would be worth the trouble of creating one. Not to mention the cobranding deals with eMAchines/HP/Dell...etc.

[tntcheats]

They won't have ads in the browser. They're smarter than that.
IE didn't have ads. It was to build on the brand.
Google's money will come from their heightened brand awareness, and from the things like Gmail which will likely be built in with the browser.

[coo_t2]

Easy, Google said so.

I heard that they run XP Home Edition, but since they've went public they are now planning on upgrading to the Professional Edition.

--ed

[sanjaykattimani]

IMO google will keep those optional and surely make it good looking one. I dont think they will force their ads on their browser. If they do , i dont think they can compete with IE.

[mav]

Google is taking over...

[moonchild]

Agreed. And think about it... it's not that exciting.

They'd have to make a spectacular, secure browser with great CSS and XML support for me to be interested.

if it's not that exciting..why do you even bother to comment? plus, it sounds to me like you are one of those real techy people with no personality whatsoever.

[stymiee]

if it's not that exciting..why do you even bother to comment?

Because that is what forums are all about.

plus, it sounds to me like you are one of those real techy people with no personality whatsoever.

He has a lot of personality and is a valued contributer to these forums. But I haven't seen anything useful from you yet.

Sorrry for the flame guys and gals. Just didn't like that post. I'll take my lashes like a man now.

[stymiee]

Oh, And I should mention I agree with him. Between FireFox, The Mozilla Suite, Netscape 7.2, and Opera, there are plenty of choices for a full featured browser. Google would have to have to include some compelling feature(s) to pry me away from something I'm very attached to (I love my FireFox).

[TheOriginalH]

Off Topic:

People contributing to this thread come from the US, England, Canada, Scotland, Sweden, Australia, Pakistan ...Mars, the Andromeda Galaxy and between the pipes (quite a few outta towners ). Discussing what is and is not legal on the internet is all but meaningless even if you do have a sound legal grounding, because of its geographical perculiarities.

On the "Google Browser" front....I'm all for it, and I am not against the Opera model either, fair is fair. I suspect that Google are likely to use "targetted" advertising as their revenue generator based on surfing habits (much like gmail). At the end of the day, any new browser to the market is added competition and likely to drive all browsers to better and more beautiful places

[24hrGamers]

Google usually does pretty cool stuff so im excited.

[adesignrsa]

From the mouth of google themselves:

Equipment - Most Googlers have high powered Linux OS workstations on their desktops. In Google's earliest days, desks were wooden doors mounted on two sawhorses. Some of these are still in use within the engineering group.

http://www.google.com/corporate/culture.html

[someonewhois]

Off Topic:

People contributing to this thread come from the US, England, Canada, Scotland, Sweden, Australia, Pakistan ...Mars, the Andromeda Galaxy and between the pipes (quite a few outta towners ). Discussing what is and is not legal on the internet is all but meaningless even if you do have a sound legal grounding, because of its geographical perculiarities.

On the "Google Browser" front....I'm all for it, and I am not against the Opera model either, fair is fair. I suspect that Google are likely to use "targetted" advertising as their revenue generator based on surfing habits (much like gmail). At the end of the day, any new browser to the market is added competition and likely to drive all browsers to better and more beautiful places

Eigh, none of the other browsers have made IE change yet.

[TheOriginalH]

Hmmmm.....

Fixed box model
Better css support
Better standards rather than MS coding compliancy
Fixed (occassionally patched) security model

I'd say that other browsers and the gradual errosion of IE's market share have done that a little...eh?

[Dark Tranquility]

yes I agree registering the domain does not mean anything

[Dualism]

Hmm, I've read through this entire thread, and I think the most interesting information comes from information that psn linked to a few posts up. Just so nobody missed it, check out this link and read the information on that page, as well as skim some of the pages that it links to.

They go into much more depth about Google and have some interesting speculation for its plans for the future. I just thought it was more interesting that people saying that they loved IE. *shudder*