ask jeevesがfirefox元にしたブラウザーを開発か

ask jeevesがfirefoxを元にask jeevesブランドのブラウザーを開発するかもしれない。また，ask jeevesがデスクトップ・サーチエンジンをオープンソース化する話が出ている。

We shared AJ view and support for open source standard, especially on the desktop, and their efforts on Firefox and Thunderbird, both of which I'm impressed with. I shared that Mozilla browser didn't do it for me but Firefox certainly converted many of AJ engnineering (including myself) over exclusively to Firefox. We explained that we want to support and leverage Firefox by building extensions to and plug-ins within Firefox. We discussed the fact that it doesn't make sense for us to build a browser from scratch, but we think building Ask specific functionalities on top of Firefox to build an AJ-branded or co-branded browser could make sense in 2005.

http://www.threadwatch.org/node/1441
http://blog.ask.com/2005/02/mozillas_on_fir.html