Thus in the end all it ends up being is a revenue driver for the search engine. They are worried that their market share is slipping, and it is. Soon there will be much better search in the market and their reputation as an innovator (for doing things others did long before them) will be taken away. For now though I do agree that that have been doing the right things. Not in a “do no evil” sense, but from a marketing standpoint.

Google has made a wonderful search algorythm, just at the times when the giants simply did not care about good search. Search was a headache for companies, pointless, needed lots of resources, no revenues. Up until google proved this wrong. Google had not done anything magical, or a super magical software, they became rich with good searching.

IMHO, google browser will not be very much different from microsoft’s efforts to combine all MS products and leave the user with no choice. In fact, I would hate that if google would give me a big flashy GMail button on a gbrowser and try to handicap me while checking my Yahoo account.(Although I love GMail)

About firefox, firefox is a really distinct browser wrto IE. It is definitely something else. IE is the default and most basic option while firefox is more advanced and thus needs special attention like customizing or extensions. IE is the local bus. FF is the limo service. You arrive at the same place, but the travel is much more enjoyable and safe.

I think google has nothing in common with the browsers; and it seems to me like a PR campaign, that google supports open software. They do not, and why should they? But the good thing is the side effects. What gmail did to yahoo (from 6 to 250) and hotmail (from 4 to 25, eventually 250). Force MS to be better, at least to look better. Where was MSN search, Amazon search, desktop tools and all the others. This is a chain “Me, too” reaction. And it is good that google’s strategy is to start this reaction and wait for the responses. Powerful response, back off, weak, then go for it. Gmail got weak responses while desktop search was backed off immediately and powerfully. But the “innovation” card is now in google’s hand, all others are loyal followers.

Wait and see what happen when WebOS vs MS OS.

Look on USPTO and you’ll see that they’ve registered Froogle as a trademark, for example, but not GBrowser.

This makes me think that Google has no intention of releasing a product called GBrowser.

Yes, I like the greed, the monopolizing microsoft–I don’t know why–I just do—I like it’s studly penis of software–and how it’s made all the little bitches whine.. I really do. I like it’s big corporate enterprise.

Besides they have supplied nice software for 20 years, and we should thank them for that. However, I am going to make a “reasonable” statement and not an “emotional statement.” Yes, I beleive that microsoft may experience some turbulence because of google, sun’s solaris, open source…nanotechnology, computers from china–chip prices going down at very very psychotic exponential levels–phone by broadband–the embracement of grid computing (which is probably the most promising)..

we have only had the internet for about a decade now. And this has increased the developement in nanotechnology and the way we network from computer to computer. So in reality, there is much that we still don’t know. In fact, the internet and computer modeling has made research and developement advance exponentially (more than in 90’s or rate of change in 20th century) I recommed everybody just stick around and stop bitching..and me too–dammit I hate that.

microsoft may metamorph into something else, something completely new that offers sound prices–or something relating to open source—don’t put it down–this type of market will make all players compete eventually–so don’t worry, you will get your peice of pie.