Google Picks Gates' Brains
Found on New York Post on Monday, 20 September 2004
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.
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.
Now that Firefox catches on, Google jumps onto that sector too. First the Google Toolbar, then GMail, now a browser... Why can't it just stick to its original business? There is still a lot to improve if you take a look at all that search engine spam that is going on in Google. Or they could improve GMail, which sucks right now. Besides, looking at the Adsense program, I assume the browser will automatically display advertisments based on the sites you visit.