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Google again:

What if Google (GOOG) wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable of targeting advertising to a user’s precise location? The gatekeeper of the world’s information could become one of the globe’s biggest Internet providers and one of its most powerful ad sellers, basically supplanting telecoms in one fell swoop. Sounds crazy, but how might Google go about it?

First it would build a national broadband network -- let's call it the GoogleNet -- massive enough to rival even the country's biggest Internet service providers. Business 2.0 has learned from telecom insiders that Google is already building such a network, though ostensibly for many reasons. For the past year, it has quietly been shopping for miles and miles of "dark," or unused, fiber-optic cable across the country from wholesalers such as New York’s AboveNet. It's also acquiring superfast connections from Cogent Communications and WilTel, among others, between East Coast cities including Atlanta, Miami, and New York. Such large-scale purchases are unprecedented for an Internet company, but Google's timing is impeccable. The rash of telecom bankruptcies has freed up a ton of bargain-priced capacity, which Google needs as it prepares to unleash a flood of new, bandwidth-hungry applications. These offerings could include everything from a digital-video database to on-demand television programming.

http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,1093558,00.html

 

[pnjtony]

GoogleReich is coming!

Where do I sign?

 

[olimario]

Sign me up.
Then I'd be able to play the DS online anywhere.


WE MUST EMBRACE OUR GOOGLE OVERLORDS!

 

[Deleted member 1235]

I am sooooo ready for the world to be taken over by google. I love their shit. all of it.

 

[Triumph]

It'll be awesome when Google buys up all the National Debt and we become the United States of Google.

 

[Ruzbeh]

It'll be awesome when Google buys up all the National Debt and we become the United States of Google.

:lol

 

[TheOMan]

Really, I like Google and all, but this is just like those movies where the benevolent macrocompany slowly but surely takes over the world and are revealed to be aliens that want to eat your fingers or something. This totally reeks of Outer Limits and I'm just waiting for that smug announcer to do a voice over where he says how stupid humans are and they are getting their "Just Desserts".

Hopefully Google isn't reading this :/

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

Googlenet = Skynet?

WE'RE FUCKED.

 

[Zaptruder]

Google for president! Oh yeah!

 

[Cauliflower of Love]

Hopefully Google isn't reading this :/

Hah!

 

[GodsTyro]

I would again like to state that the founder of Google graduated from my university.

 

[GDJustin]

I am sooooo ready for the world to be taken over by google. I love their shit. all of it.

What about the Google Web Accelerator? What a horrible, horrible app THAT was.

 

[jenov4]

BRING IT ON BABY! Awww yeah!

 

[tedtropy]

What about the Google Web Accelerator? What a horrible, horrible app THAT was.

Shhh...we agreed never to speak of [looks around nervously] the app which must not be named.

 

[Der Kommisar]

targeting advertising to a user’s precise location?

GOOG FOR PREZ! MORE ADS =

 

[Agent Dormer]

Really, I like Google and all, but this is just like those movies where the benevolent macrocompany slowly but surely takes over the world and are revealed to be aliens that want to eat your fingers or something. This totally reeks of Outer Limits and I'm just waiting for that smug announcer to do a voice over where he says how stupid humans are and they are getting their "Just Desserts".

Hopefully Google isn't reading this :/

Their cache doesn't lie, and you can't hide!

 

[Fuzzy]

There are already some places in the US where cable companies have successfully stopped city halls from offering free wifi to everyone in their city. I can't remember which cities this has already happened in, Leo Laporte talked about it on his KFI weekend radio show a while back.

 

[snacknuts]

I want to be assimilated. Make it happen, Google.

 

[Matlock]

Every one of Google's services is made for two functions:

1. Collect information to refine adsense
2. Push adsense to the everyday browser in a different form

So don't be surprised if the "Free" shit you look at winds up getting you better targeted ads.

 

[acidviper]

There better be splashover to Canada.

 

[TheOMan]

There better be splashover to Canada.

You know there will be. This all part of their world take over strategy.

:furiously clears cache:

Oh wait, you meant their cache!

 

[Tuvoc]

Googlenet = Skynet?

WE'RE FUCKED.

If I can feasibly masturbate to internet porn anywhere...anytime..Then bring on the bots!!

 

[Leatherface]

*Bows down to his master, "GOOGLE"!*

 

[Deku]

All hail our new Masters. Google.

 

[mrmyth]

There are already some places in the US where cable companies have successfully stopped city halls from offering free wifi to everyone in their city. I can't remember which cities this has already happened in, Leo Laporte talked about it on his KFI weekend radio show a while back.

City hall /= Google

Google = deep money

CABLE AM CRY

 

[Fuzzy]

City hall /= Google

Google = deep money

CABLE AM CRY

When cable/phone companies all over the US realize that they'll be losing customers to a free Google service they'll get together to fight it and push a Federal law to prevent it. Count on it.

 

[TheOMan]

When cable/phone companies all over the US realize that they'll be losing customers to a free Google service they'll get together to fight it and push a Federal law to prevent it. Count on it.

Breaking News:

GoogleNet has purchased all cable and phone companies in North America and is planning to turn them into parking lots after their refusal to bow to the megacorporation. In other news PS3 pricing has been revealed to be more than you can possibly afford and the XBox360 has actually *risen* in price to match the PS3. More details at 11.

 

[mrmyth]

When cable/phone companies all over the US realize that they'll be losing customers to a free Google service they'll get together to fight it and push a Federal law to prevent it. Count on it.

Thing is, the goverment is already watching cable/telecom for unfair practices. Cable internet providers have taken to stealing customers from local city halls by switching their service without permission. Then there's the whole issue of bundling, where you can't get one service without buying the others. Google will end being seen as healthy competition.

CABLE STILL AM CRY.

 

[Laguna X]

Anything that fucks Comcast Cable up the ass is A-ok with me. Go Google!

 

[GaimeGuy]

It'll be awesome when Google buys up all the National Debt and we become the United States of Google.

Sign me up.

 

[cvxfreak]

I'd love to have Google Wi-Fi everywhere I go. Count me in.

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

Really, I like Google and all, but this is just like those movies where the benevolent macrocompany slowly but surely takes over the world and are revealed to be aliens that want to eat your fingers or something. This totally reeks of Outer Limits and I'm just waiting for that smug announcer to do a voice over where he says how stupid humans are and they are getting their "Just Desserts".

Hopefully Google isn't reading this :/

I for one, welcome our Google overlords.

All hail Google, for they are our kings!!

 

[Der Kommisar]

"3 billion human lives ended on August 29th, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against Adsense. The computer which controlled the machines, Googlenet, sent two Terminators back through time. Their mission: to target advertising to a user’s precise location."

 

[sprsk]

I wonder if nintendo will be tapping into this for their wifi network.

 

[CB3]

It'll be awesome when Google buys up all the National Debt and we become the United States of Google.

:lol :lol that just made me laugh out loud in the library.

 

[maynerd]

GOOGLE RULZ!

 

[xexex]

Count me Into the Google Revolution!

 

[Phoenix]

If it does happen - MSFT will shit a brick.

Welcome to the changing of the guard

 

[DjangoReinhardt]

Anything that cuts into cable monopolies can't be entirely bad.

I have yet to click on an AdSense link.

 

[Mashing]

Every one of Google's services is made for two functions:

1. Collect information to refine adsense
2. Push adsense to the everyday browser in a different form

So don't be surprised if the "Free" shit you look at winds up getting you better targeted ads.

OMG A GOOGLE HATER!!!! GET HIM!

*grabs torch*

BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

 

[Fix]

Chain of events:

Terrorist attack(s) -> Martial Law -> Eminent Domain declared on Google offices for national security -> Launch all zig.

 

[Macam]

Sweet, more Google speculation. All we need now is another I, Cringely Apple set top box article and I can call it a day.

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

I have yet to click on to one of googles ads, am I fighting the system or a part of it? And how can I be sure?

 

[Miguel]

Has Google aquired Meetro yet?
When will they acquire Sony and give away PS4s and give ads during the loading screens on games.


My Google Tis Of Thee
Sweet Search of Liberty
For GMail I sing

Land where Web Accel. died.
Land of the GMail Pride.
From every Google Image search
Let Google News ring!

 

[Mupepe]

GOOG FOR PREZ! MORE ADS =

That would be sweet. you're on your laptop somewhere in downtown new york and you're like "shiznit motherfucker, i so hungry i could eat cow balls" and then all of a sudden you get an ad for "the best cow balls in NYC!" and it's right down the street. you'll eat those cow balls and you'll thank google later.