Google Hires Top Firefox Programmer
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Web search company Google has hired the lead engineer of the Firefox Web browser, fueling speculation that Google will create its own version of Firefox to take on Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer.
Ben Goodger said in a note on his Web site -- http:/weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/ -- that he would continue to work on Firefox, a free browser that has gained a popular following due to additional features and fewer attacks from malicious hackers than Internet Explorer.
Internet cognoscenti have speculated about a Google browser since the company registered the Gbrowser.com domain and hired several Internet Explorer engineers last year.
A Google spokeswoman in London declined to say whether the company had a browser in the works
Submitted by: GHoosdum
Source: Reuters
Ben Goodger said in a note on his Web site -- http:/weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/ -- that he would continue to work on Firefox, a free browser that has gained a popular following due to additional features and fewer attacks from malicious hackers than Internet Explorer.
Internet cognoscenti have speculated about a Google browser since the company registered the Gbrowser.com domain and hired several Internet Explorer engineers last year.
A Google spokeswoman in London declined to say whether the company had a browser in the works
Maybe they'll pour some extra dough into Firefox development too..."We can't share any information about what we're working on, but many of our products aim to transform the browsing experience,"
Submitted by: GHoosdum
Source: Reuters
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G.O.S.
The next step for google is to make an O.S. And then THEY WILL BECOME MICROSOFT!!!!!
^Ben
However, it is true that as companies that start out user-friendly get bigger, they tend to care less about the users. Look at what happened to hotbot. And Nutscrape. And MLB.