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Google Browser?
2004-12-04, 6:14 PM #1
Looks like Google might try it's hand at toppling IE too. I guess building a browser off Firefox still counts as building your own.

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2004-12-04, 6:34 PM #2
I hope they can make a avant/firefox browser, combining the ease of avant and speed of firefox... Mmm....
2004-12-04, 6:45 PM #3
What is the point ? You already use their searching and email, what more is a google browser going to do that existing microsoft competitor browsers don't do? It would just give one more company more and more power over your computer activity (thereby creating another monopoly). It would be fine IMO if they teamed up with Firefox or another browser to have an "Official browser of Google," but why do any more?
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2004-12-04, 7:09 PM #4
I can't wait for a Google OS ;)
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2004-12-04, 7:32 PM #5
GOOGLEZON!
2004-12-04, 7:48 PM #6
I'd love to try out a Google OS!

Bobbert:

For the moment they are teaming up with Firefox, it sounds like they may just be changing a few things. I don't think Google could create a monopoly in it's current form. They don't have the power or influence to put their software into millions of users homes unless those users CHOOSE their software. Microsoft, on the other hand, comes installed of almost every single new computer. It's shoved down our throats. I understand your point and I agree that we do NOT need another monopoly, I just think that Google is a long, long way from that.
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2004-12-04, 7:52 PM #7
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Originally posted by SAJN_Master
I can't wait for a Google OS ;)

Yeah they could collect information on what you like and feed ads right to your desktop!
2004-12-04, 7:54 PM #8
Quote:
Originally posted by Mikus
I hope they can make a avant/firefox browser, combining the ease of avant and speed of firefox... Mmm....


*cough*opera*cough*

[edit] although, in all fairness, opera is actually faster then forefox
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2004-12-04, 8:01 PM #9
I don't like Opera's built in download manager, or bookmark system, and I think it's ugly. Just a personal thing.
2004-12-04, 8:05 PM #10
i know, liking one over the other is all a preference thing, i just don't miss a chance to do something like that :p
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2004-12-04, 8:27 PM #11
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Originally posted by Thrawn42689
GOOGLEZON!


I was just thinking the exact same thing! ;)

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2004-12-04, 10:21 PM #12
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Originally posted by Noble Outlaw
*cough*opera*cough*

[edit] although, in all fairness, opera is actually faster then forefox


Since when? Last time I used Opera it lagged, horribly. Which was nie three days ago.

Google--the monopoly everyone loves. Or else. :)
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2004-12-04, 10:34 PM #13
well, everyone i tlak to who seriously uses it and I find it much faster *shrug*. talk to dor if you don't believe me.
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2004-12-04, 10:38 PM #14
Well I don't know what you consider much faster, but for me it loaded about 2x slower than firefox.
D E A T H
2004-12-04, 10:45 PM #15
Get a stopwatch and check the actual time difference.
2004-12-04, 10:47 PM #16
*sigh* ok, yoshi, fine, yours goes faster. i really don't care. i was jsut mentioning that the rest of us find it faster. k?
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2004-12-04, 10:47 PM #17
Man, is Google just trying to piss off Microsoft or what? MS should do the smart thing and buy Google before it's too late. Not that I wouldn't be interested in seeing a bit of competition for Microsoft.
Stuff
2004-12-04, 10:48 PM #18
No because you're just bull****ting to appease me.

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2004-12-04, 10:51 PM #19
ah, yes, i knew there was a reason i ahd you on my ignore list
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2004-12-04, 10:57 PM #20
Wow, I'm destroyed by your ignorance of me. It makes me cry at night. I also listen to the Cure and cut myself at night (no offense Rob ;))
D E A T H
2004-12-05, 1:42 AM #21
Quote:
Originally posted by Bobbert006 and again by other people
(thereby creating another monopoly)


Sorry to be nit-picky, but you can't have TWO monopolies in a single market by definition. When there become more than one major player, you have yourself an ologopoly made up of a few big players.

Example - Tyres say, the big companies are Michelin, Bridgestone, Pirelli. None of them have a monopoly, because the others also have a significant market share.

You can all go back to bickering now, hope you've all learned something for the day. :)

[EDIT] Google denied these claims about a week ago, but admittedly can't be arsed to read the article and see if they've actually changed their minds...
2004-12-05, 3:22 AM #22
Erm, Microsoft seems to have gotten where it is by many illegal and unethical business practices. Google on the otherhand appears to be quite honest and just make a fine product that people like. They aren't doing anything to force it down your throat; people merely flock to it because they like it.

A Google browser could be a major blow to Microsoft. If there's any company that can start or help to "put an end" to Microsoft, it would be Google. Hah, funny that huh? A search engine.
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2004-12-05, 6:22 AM #23
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Originally posted by Emon
Erm, Microsoft seems to have gotten where it is by many illegal and unethical business practices. Google on the otherhand appears to be quite honest and just make a fine product that people like. They aren't doing anything to force it down your throat; people merely flock to it because they like it.

A Google browser could be a major blow to Microsoft. If there's any company that can start or help to "put an end" to Microsoft, it would be Google. Hah, funny that huh? A search engine.


Very true. I agree.
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2004-12-05, 7:25 AM #24
Yeah, the reason Microsoft had a problem is because people were flocking to their product because they bought everything else.
2004-12-05, 7:27 AM #25
It's actually in Microsoft's best interests to stop allow another browser to overtake them. The problem with IE is that it's had to focus on backwards-compatibility for so long that it's turning it into a development nightmare, as soon as IE isn't the browser of choice they can start afresh.
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2004-12-05, 12:43 PM #26
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Originally posted by Dj Yoshi
Wow, I'm destroyed by your ignorance of me. It makes me cry at night. I also listen to the Cure and cut myself at night (no offense Rob ;))


Speak bad about The Cure and I will cut you at night.
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2004-12-05, 2:14 PM #27
I forsee a day when we can all live in our Google houses and sip Google coffee from our Google mugs as we browse the Google internet with out Google browsers.
2004-12-05, 2:25 PM #28
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2004-12-05, 4:36 PM #29
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Originally posted by Warlord
I forsee a day when we can all live in our Google houses and sip Google coffee from our Google mugs as we browse the Google internet with out Google browsers.


I welcome our new masters. Heil Google!
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2004-12-05, 4:44 PM #30
I'd love to see you guys measure the milliseconds each browser takes, and then combine the fact your ISP gives you slightly different speeds of connection each second, and then the distance of each server added on... it'd be funny. It's almost impossible to say a browser is faster than another, except that apparently Avant is, according to PC World magazine or something. Avant isn't that well known, but I do think it's one of the best browsers availiable. Try it out... I seriously recoomend it. As for a google OS, I'll stick to windows XP... unless it includes froogle on the desktop, that'd be worth it. (err yes.)
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2004-12-06, 2:56 AM #31
On my laptop, FF is the fastest to load, Opera is the faster at DL'ing pages (the renderer just seems quicker on mine), IE is poopants and avant is IE in disguise.

And I like gmail.

And you can have your google coffee, but you can't take away my Yorkshire Tea or I will tear someone a new arse!!!
2004-12-06, 6:35 AM #32
Quote:
Originally posted by Oxyonagon
I'd love to see you guys measure the milliseconds each browser takes, and then combine the fact your ISP gives you slightly different speeds of connection each second, and then the distance of each server added on... it'd be funny. It's almost impossible to say a browser is faster than another, except that apparently Avant is, according to PC World magazine or something. Avant isn't that well known, but I do think it's one of the best browsers availiable. Try it out... I seriously recoomend it. As for a google OS, I'll stick to windows XP... unless it includes froogle on the desktop, that'd be worth it. (err yes.)


We're talking about loading times, as in how long it takes to load on your computer. Not to mention, Avant sucks major wang. It's a vamped up IE, which bodes not well in and of itself.
D E A T H
2004-12-06, 6:39 AM #33
The thought of a google OS is staggering... What would it be like?
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2004-12-06, 7:01 AM #34
Endless amounts of awesome.
D E A T H
2004-12-06, 7:06 AM #35
And mainly white.

And what would we do with our verb 'to google'? I would be so confoosed.
2004-12-06, 10:27 AM #36
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Originally posted by Martyn
And what would we do with our verb 'to google'? I would be so confoosed.

Yes, that is perhaps the biggest problem I see with the expansion of Google, unless they make a new name based off of Google for every new thing they do, such as they did with Froogle and GMail.

Also, on the note of Internet browsers, while Opera can make you a threat to the Internet, it also seems to be second only to IE when it comes to security issues...
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2004-12-06, 10:27 AM #37
Google shall take over the googlenet
nope.
2004-12-06, 11:44 AM #38
In Soviet Google, Google googles Google!
2004-12-06, 1:20 PM #39
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Originally posted by Dj Yoshi
We're talking about loading times, as in how long it takes to load on your computer. Not to mention, Avant sucks major wang. It's a vamped up IE, which bodes not well in and of itself.


And here we were almost having a rational discussion

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