Comments on: Investor doesn't see browser in Google's future

Board member John Doerr discusses the future of the search giant--and the Web itself.

Google Browser
by wonsil October 6, 2004 7:30 AM PDT: Actually, being in the browser business would make Google's search engine smarter. Knowing the tricks that web marketers use to hide keywords, etc. would clean up quite a bit of the searches.; Like this Reply to this comment

Lead, follow or get out of the way.
by October 6, 2004 7:16 PM PDT: I hope that, as he joked, Google board member and investor John Doerr really doesn?t know anything about the ?gbrowser? plans.

Google is an innovative company and should strongly consider ?leading? the browser market rather than just tailing behind it with ?Google's application protocol interfaces and advertising networks?to plug into and support them.?; Like this Reply to this comment

Browser = Albatross
by October 6, 2004 11:27 PM PDT: I voted "no" on the rumor on 9/26:
http://www.buzzhit.com/2004/09/now-theyre-doing-browser.html

No guarentee Doerr isn't giving out a little misinformation... but a browser? C'mon.; Like this Reply to this comment

GOOGLE OS, read about it!
by anthonycea October 7, 2004 6:39 PM PDT: Google will have a operating system of some sort as experts say they will.

http://www.searchwars.squarespace.com/the-google-os/

What is this we hear about data centers and grid computing?

Google will become a major data center and folks will hook up to this giant data center/grid computer.

So investors can say what they want, maybe he owns stock in Microsoft also?; Like this Reply to this comment