Sunday, February 14, 2010

Google to add Internet to it's list of services

All I can say is, Wow!

Google announced that they are going to start rolling out 1GB internet over fiber to select communities. Sounds expensive, you say? well, they said that they are going to offer competitive pricing and allow open access to the fiber networks to allow multiple service providers to access the network.

According to the their Blog post "Our goal is to experiment with new ways to help make Internet access better and faster for everyone."

How will your life change with this announcement? Think of how your life would look if you could do everything over the internet instead of on your own computer. Your applications could run with blazing speed. No more waiting. You can run multiple applications and use your computer like a work station.

Why are they doing this? Google makes money when you use the internet. Their goal with YouTube, Gmail, and their new application, Buzz, is to get you to spend as much time on the internet so that they can make money by selling ads.

Because they make their money via ad revenue, their main concern is to get people on the internet. This is why you keep seeing Google come up with new applications to get you to stay on the internet as long as possible.

Google is going to offer blazing fast internet, allow multiple service providers, and keep the network open. In addition, they won't prohibit you from doing things you want to do, like watching TV on the web or talking on your VOIP phone.

Google keeps offering more and more services that are free or very low cost. This is great for consumers, but also bad in a way. After all, Google is quickly becoming the "Big Brother" that many of us worry about our Governments to be.

That being said, if you want to get involved and submit your community for consideration for this new fiber network visit www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi

4 comments:

  1. I worry about the Big Brother thing, but Google just seems to keep filling the holes that other companies leave. When Apple shunned developers, Google made a phone platform and gave developers a home. I think Google is just better at business development than the other brands and for that has found a lot of success and love from the masses.
    ...I am wary of the day when they do get so big that the temptation to be Sauron overcomes them though.

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  2. Yes, the Big Brother thing is a little worrisome.

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  3. Hi,
    Google primarily provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world’s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers many tools and platforms including its more popular products.
    There are more than a hundred Google services & products and some useful ones are little-known. We prepared a guide for Google’s services and products to show you how big giant Google is. If you want to add a Google service or product that doesn’t exist in this list.

    Thanks
    Peter
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