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Web search company Google Inc. 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 Corp.'s dominant Internet Explorer.
Ben Goodger said in a note on his Web site that he would continue to work on Firefox, a free browser that has gained popularity due to having more features and suffering fewer attacks from malicious hackers than Internet Explorer.
Internet cognoscenti have speculated about a Google browser since the Mountain View, Calif.-based 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. "We can't share any information about what we're working on, but many of our products aim to transform the browsing experience," she said.
Goodger's title at Google will be software engineer, she said, and half of his time will be donated to the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, which owns Firefox.
 News source: ComputerWorld
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| #1 Posted by mitchy_g (27 posts) at 01 Feb 2005 - 01:54 |
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I also read somewhere that google has registered the domain "GBrowser.com"
Lets see wats happens here!
Mitch
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