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Look Out MSN Search, Here Comes Gbrowser By Mark Daoust

It is official, the search engine wars are in full swing. On Tuesday, February 01, 2005 MSN officially rolled out its new search solution to all of its websites, including MSN.com.

This comes on the heels of growing speculation that Google plans to launch its own browser, possibly in an attempt to attack Microsoft's greatest strength in Internet Explorer. Is it possible that MSN actually rolled out their search engine to prevent Google from doing the same thing they did to Yahoo! with the release of Gmail?

Google appears to have been planning a browser for some time. In April of 2004 they purchased the domain gbrowser.com (notice the similarity to gmail.com) and recently they lured two of the lead developers on the Firefox browser project to join the Google team. When asked what their role would be at Google, both developers were unable to specify what their roles were. Yet with Firefox's relative success at chipping away Internet Explorer's stronghold on the browser market, Google is certain to take notice of the minds that were able to make a dent in the Internet Explorer stronghold.

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