{"id":1159,"date":"2007-04-10T22:57:52","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T03:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/10\/maxthon-much-ado-about-nothing\/"},"modified":"2007-04-10T22:57:52","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T03:57:52","slug":"maxthon-much-ado-about-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/10\/maxthon-much-ado-about-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxthon \u2014 much ado about nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone seems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techmeme.com\/070410\/p18#a070410p18\">pretty excited<\/a> at news that Google has invested a whopping $1-million (say it with a Doctor Evil sneer &#8212; it&#8217;s more fun) in Maxthon, the browser that seems to have taken China by storm. Mike Arrington at TechCrunch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/04\/10\/google-takes-partial-ownership-of-maxthon-browser\/\">says that<\/a> it&#8217;s just part of a larger strategic arrangement between the two, and that set tongues wagging all over the blogosphere. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" id=\"image1160\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/snipshot_d4eh2qlm1mw.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"snipshot_d4eh2qlm1mw.jpg\" \/>What does Google have in mind for Maxthon? What does this mean for Firefox? I don&#8217;t think it means much of anything, to tell you the truth. And it&#8217;s not just the fact that $1-million is about what Google spends on anchovies for the free gourmet pizza they serve in the Googleplex cafeteria every Wednesday afternoon. I also can&#8217;t see Google getting all worked up about a browser that is effectively an add-on for Internet <strike>Exploder<\/strike> Explorer. <\/p>\n<p>And yes, I know you can change the rendering engine to Gecko (which powers the Firefox browser). It&#8217;s still an add-on, or a front end, or whatever you want to call it. And yes, it has <a href=\"http:\/\/startupmeme.com\/2007\/04\/10\/google-getting-cozy-with-maxthon-browse-gets-minority-stakes\/\">lots of cool features<\/a>, and I know it had tabs before IE. Whatever. I think the main interest for Google is the Chinese angle, and the fact that converting Maxthon&#8217;s built-in search to Google power would be a <a href=\"http:\/\/techfold.com\/2007\/04\/10\/google-maxthon-hmmmm\/\">foot in the door<\/a> where Baidu currently dominates.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone seems pretty excited at news that Google has invested a whopping $1-million (say it with a Doctor Evil sneer &#8212; it&#8217;s more fun) in Maxthon, the browser that seems to have taken China by storm. Mike Arrington at TechCrunch says that it&#8217;s just part of a larger strategic arrangement between the two, and that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/10\/maxthon-much-ado-about-nothing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maxthon \u2014 much ado about nothing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}