Latest Google Hiring Point to Browser Plans
We discussed few days ago that Google might be planning to develop it’s own Browser… and signs are becoming clearer than ever. Just reported in many online papers, Google has done some high profile hiring in the recent days. 4 people who worked on Internet Explorer (one being Adam Bosworth), another one from Java lead developers (Joshua Bloch) and another guy (Joe Beda) who was working on future Microsoft technologies like Avalon and Longhorn.
It is also notable that Google now holds ownership of the domain name GBrowser.com leading to more speculation of a browser from Google’s stable.
And well, with Google’s success with GMail, Search Engine and Adsense… it seems that anything they touch turns into a huge success. However, browsers are a different breed and unless they go with an existing web rendering engine (our prediction is Gecko), it would be tough thing to do. Starting from scratch to develop a browser won’t be cakewalk even for Google.
Sushubh Mittal is the technical consultant for SEJ and blogs at Techwhack.
that might be becoz most news stories are more of speculation and less on truth? take for example [the register] story heading… :) and this is more of an view on the gossips in media.
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