What is Google up to?

…Google was supposedly buying up unused fiber and spare backbone bandwidth like crazy—enough to move some serious, serious data. Then yesterday our man Om pointed out IP Democracy’s report that Google has been further reviewing bids for building a nationwide DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) fiber network, one theoretically capable of terabit speeds, and at the bargain basement price of under $100 million—apparently this thing could even be up and running in months, according to their sources…hence speculation of a WiMax or WiFi network. Now today it’s come out that yes, they actually have a piece of working WiFi VPN software to download called Google Secure Access, and that it “is only available at certain locations in the San Francisco Bay Areaâ€?—coincidence that that’s where they happen to have a test bed of location-tracking WiFi hotspots to provide Google-local based ads on top of free WiFi access? And knowing Google, of course they’d want VPN software running on “GoogleNet,â€? what kind of PR nightmare would it be for them having millions across the nation getting online on open WiFi on account of the “do no harmâ€? company?…

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  • nstryker
    "so this is how liberty dies..."
  • Dan
    Oh no. I would love to see Google buy AOL; they could do some great things to a service that desperately needs it. I still believe AOL is great for certain people, namely the people that only can handle a mac but Google could easily change that.

    I would also love to see them buy Yahoo! and/or release a national internet service.

    But if this does happen I see a lot of good things and a lot of bad. I would imagine Google changing the internet for the better but there will be people in the future who will hate Google that earlier loved them because know they would be a monopoly. And worst case scenario it might create stagnation in innovation similar to ms.
  • Maybe I'm missing something, but is there something negative about this?
  • Dan
    And with the rumors google might buy AOL and YAHOO!; yes YAHOO! they will undoubtedly run the internet.
  • nstryker
    we'll definitely have to tythyl on this.
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