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Story: Mozilla could form base of a Google browser

Posted by: Brian (Thursday 23 September 2004, 10:34 AM)

GLinux?

Google started out as a search company but recently they have changed into a provider of very different services. As Microsoft (MSN) is moving in on Google's search tuff Google needs to react and move in on some of Microsoft's tuff otherwise there will be no Google in the future.

Creating a browser is either a very brilliant or very desperate strategy and I am not yet sure which one it is - time will tell.

An interesting idea is if Google teamed up with Apple and made a Linux distribution for the desktop. Bringing a Mac GUI to Linux would be pretty cool and if you then add direct access to all the services Google offers (and will be offering) you have a combatant on the desktop.

Charge a little for the Mac GUI and suddenly you have a business case for Apple. For Google the potential is to be the deafult on every desktop which is a pretty good business case.