Another Google 180
September 6, 2008
Physorg.com ran a story called “Google Chief Admits to Defensive Component of Browser Launch”. You can read the full story here. The point of the story is that Google needed a browser to protect and attack. For me, the most interesting statement in the story was this quote attributed to Eric Schmidt:
It is true that we actually, and I in particular, have said for a long time that we should not do a browser because it wasn’t necessary,” he told the business daily. The thing that changed in the past couple of years … is that people started building powerful applications on top of browsers and the browsers that were out there, in particular in Explorer, were not up to the task of running complex applications.
Now that Google has hit age 10, it seems to be able to changes its mind like a 10 year old. How do I know what Google says today will be true tomorrow? Answer: I don’t. Do you?
Stephen Arnold, September 6, 2008:
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