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Google is the only search system with any kind of personality. So why not a Google browser?

“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,” says the New York Post, going on:

“Google has wooed Joshua Bloch, one of the main developers of the Internet programming language Java, from Sun Microsystems. The company also hired four people who worked on Microsoft’s Web browser, Internet Explorer, and later founded their own company. One of them, Adam Bosworth, is credited with being a driving force not only behind IE, but Microsoft’s database-management program, Access.

“Most recently, Google grabbed Joe Beda, the lead developer on Avalon, Microsoft’s code name for the user interface that will part of the next version of Windows, called Longhorn.”

Google hosted Mozilla Developer Day 2004 – “Please identify yourself as a Developer Day participant. Note that Building 44 is across the street from the main portion of the Google Campus” ……

Does this signal the creation of a Mozoogle? heh

Whether that’s so or not, “Opera said it welcomed the news that Google is potentially entering the browser market,” says ZDNet UK, continuing:

“Pal Hvistendahl, vice-president at browser firm Opera Software, said that he wants more competition in the browser space as it makes people aware that there is an alternative to Microsoft. ‘Anything that makes people realise there is a choice out there is good,’ said Hvistendahl.”

Mozilla Search, anyone?

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See:-

wooed – Google Picks Gates’ Brains, New York Post, September 19, 2004

Opera – Mozilla Developer Day 2004

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