Google unlikely to make own Web browser despite Microsoft threat

June 1, 2006 Google headquarters

(AP) -- Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt on Wednesday told industry analysts the online search engine leader is unlikely to create its own Web browser, even though the company remains worried about being slighted by the next version of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer.

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