News about the google and the fabled gbrowser are everywhere. Whether they are true or not, let's try a little gdreaming.
Let's say that an google-branded version of Mozilla is announced sometime soon. What will they add to our Internet experience?
Most probably their first step is going to be optimizing the applications for the existing gservices.
The email client could nicely work with gmail, maybe allowing users to take advantage of the collaborative spam filtering technology to keep also non-gmail accounts clean.
What could google add to the browsing experience? Besides a souped up google bar, it would be another brand-named browser. Switching from a Microsoft to an open source browser could be hard for some users, switching from Microsoft to Google might be a lot easier.
And then, of course, there's the whole desktop business. Both Apple and Microsoft are working on new versions of their operating system where search features will rule. They are looking for an alternative to the 20 years old "folders on desktop" metaphore and, with Internet and Google, users are now quite comfortable with searching information everywhere using keywords.
Would google's technology work on the desktop where their pageranking algorithms, based on links, will not work? Google has plenty of engineers and of cash to come out with a new technology and, again, they have the most powerful brandname of the web to play with.
Let's say that an google-branded version of Mozilla is announced sometime soon. What will they add to our Internet experience?
Most probably their first step is going to be optimizing the applications for the existing gservices.
The email client could nicely work with gmail, maybe allowing users to take advantage of the collaborative spam filtering technology to keep also non-gmail accounts clean.
What could google add to the browsing experience? Besides a souped up google bar, it would be another brand-named browser. Switching from a Microsoft to an open source browser could be hard for some users, switching from Microsoft to Google might be a lot easier.
And then, of course, there's the whole desktop business. Both Apple and Microsoft are working on new versions of their operating system where search features will rule. They are looking for an alternative to the 20 years old "folders on desktop" metaphore and, with Internet and Google, users are now quite comfortable with searching information everywhere using keywords.
Would google's technology work on the desktop where their pageranking algorithms, based on links, will not work? Google has plenty of engineers and of cash to come out with a new technology and, again, they have the most powerful brandname of the web to play with.
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