One noteworthy takeaway from Google's Wednesday analyst call (liveblogged by Brian White) is that Google does not have plans to build its own browser.
With Google expanding in so many directions, it is worth noting that Google's recent expansion into the desktop space via Dell doesn't mean it will be going one step further with a desktop Internet browser.
This makes sense as Google recently partnered with Firefox and as CEO Eric Schmidt states, people are content with the current browser options: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera, so there isn't a demand for Google to develop an alternative. Google, "would not build a browser just for the fun of building a browser," he says.
Schmidt did however voice his concerns over Microsoft's upcoming releases of its new OS Microsoft Vista and the prepackaged new release of Internet Explorer. Schmidt's concerns have similar undertones to Netscape's prior arguments over anti-competition -- that by prepackaging and other possible integrations, Microsoft will use it's dominant position on a user's desktop to drive their searching towards MSN.
With Google having reprioritzed on 'search', could Schmidt's concerns touch on Chairman Gate's allusions to MSN re-emerging when the stage and timing is set?
Google unlikely to make an Internet browser
Posted Jun 1st 2006 12:02PM by Howard Tsung
Filed under: Internet, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT)
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6-05-2006 @ 12:52PM
Prasanna said...
Google created http://finance.google.com/finance
inspite of finance.yahoo.com , its just matter of time when few of the SDE@ Google think hey lets make a browser in our 20 % time. And there you go, you have a Browser. The reason google have tied up Mozila, is first step i guess.
I think google will bring the generation 2 browswer for web2.0 where world of HTML will be more sane.. Its time we move out of non-standardize browsers and follow w3 orgs suggestions and conform to standards of how we render pages and hence make pages.