<img style="float: right" src="http://www.iexbeta.com/images/news/logos/iexGoogle.png"> Based on the half-dozen hires in recent weeks, Google appears to be planning to launch its own Web browser and other software products to challenge Microsoft.

Google has wooed Joshua Bloch, one of the main developers of the Internet programming language Java, from Sun Microsystems.

The company also hired four people who worked on Microsoft's Web browser, Internet Explorer, and later founded their own company. One of them, Adam Bosworth, is credited with being a driving force not only behind IE, but Microsoft's database-management program, Access.

Most recently, Google grabbed Joe Beda, the lead developer on Avalon, Microsoft's code name for the user interface that will part of the next version of Windows, called Longhorn.

Beda even keeps an online diary of what it's like to be a "Noogler," as new Google employees are called. He won't reveal what he's working on but mentions that each Noogler is given a hat with a propeller on the top.

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what will they think of next?

A Google OS .

google instant messenging

Google TV?

"Google Channel... your source for morning news."

Google Office 2005

how about "Google Call of Duty: United Offensive Against Microsoft."

edit: come to think of it, how about no ... that was bad.

It's called GooOS.

Been rumors about it for Months if not years.

Can't you just imagine that start button being "Goooooooooooooooooooooooooogle" ?

google cars that when a ticket cop comes they run over the cop and hide the evidence?

when a close friend worked with Google last summer, he worked on a new search technique. as far he could tell me Google' search might be using voice instead of words. I dont know if he's bluffing or not, but you know hes a good friend so i would like to trust him

You don't mean Google Voice Search, do you?

That's not a big secret and it's been in Beta for a long time now. Actually, you could even trest it for a while, now it seems like it has simply been cancelled.
And like many "experiments" in the Google Labs it might never actually become a "real Google product".

Go ahead and look at the current projects:

http://labs.google.com

Many "older" projects aren't listed any more ... but there have been great and there have been crazy ideas in the past. Some made it (Google News etc.) some didn't some might in the future.

kinda like that but instead of calling u would use a mike.