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No Office suite from us - Google

"See, we start with the toolbar, then we do the Talking Paperclip..."

By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco

Published Saturday 8th October 2005 04:12 GMT

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has quashed speculation that the giant ad broker is to introduce a web-based Office suite.

"We don't have any plans," he told Web 2.0 conference organizer John Battelle (pictured below). However Brin left the door open a little. Documents would be easier to work with in the future, he promised, but he didn't think a fat client was the way to go.

Web 2.0 organizer John Battelle"I don't really think that the thing is to take a previous generation of technology and port them directly," he told Battelle. However distributed thin web applications allowed you to do "new and better things than the Office package and more."

It puts the end to a week of feverish speculation prompted on Monday by an announcement that Sun and Google were going to team up to do something ... er, really, really big.

In the end, the only news was the disclosure that Sun would bundle Google's Toolbar in its Java RunTime download.

But, was that really all?

Google book author Battelle himself cogitated for 30 hours before delivering his verdict.

In a post entitled Google-Sun - The Toolbar, Ay, There's the Rub - he pondered: "Seems the push is on to get more Toolbars downloaded," following up with the slightly more confident: "And now, I see why Google is doing this Sun deal. It's the Toolbar, of course!" ... and concluded with the emphatic: "In other words, Google really, really wants more Toolbar distribution."