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- noneloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25They denied Google Talk too.
- phpirate, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Yeah. Ignore all other speculation, and face the facts - they're making a rocketship.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18It's pretty clear that they're building Skynet in Oregon. Deny it all you want, Google, we know it's true!
- Madh2orat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13They may not be doing it yet, however, it will only be a matter of time.
One more step in Google's World Domination. - stou, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14They also denied "building a portal" with the personalized homepage thing... Its not a portal... its a personalized homepage... hmm... whats a portal?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13stupid 90's internet catch word?
- ejacobsen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11After Google CEO Eric Schmidt denied time and time again over the last several months that Google was building a payments business to compete with PayPal, Google launched Google Checkout this week. And now we're supposed to believe an unnamed Google spokesman that they're not building an ISP when there's evidence of Google purchasing massive dark fiber capacity and placing dozens of unmarked data depots (with thousands of processors and terabytes of storage inside at strategic locations near existing internet nexus points? We ought to know better by now.
Google is moving strategically upstream and downstream from search to reinforce or protect their core business. The ISPs are a huge threat because they "own" the user's onramp to the internet. An ISP could block Google searches, charge Google to reach their users, or default to another search engine. Any of these would be very bad for Google. So Google needs leverage on the ISPs. They'll use their massive "ISP" resources as a threat against existing ISPs to guarantee Net Neutrality (for themselves). They'll promise the ISPs that they won't turn it on if the ISPs play fair (with them). Or they'll offer cheap backbone bandwidth to them on a wholesale basis if they agree to always default to Google for search (and other services).
The building of strategic businesses to support their search core is honest, smart business... but the deceit they dish out almost constantly.... is evil. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Sounds like a plan, if net netruality doesnt keep the net "free" from bandwidth restirections, then i see no reason for google to not pruse this, it could even offer cheaper rates, and take all the cable/dial up /dsl customers ,
at&t " we will slow down /block your bandwidth to google if they dont pay us"
Google " we will provide our own net, and say to hell with you, if you do"! hahaha - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Google's goal is to catalogue and make available all of the world's information. It's obvious that it is necessary to become the pipe that information transmits directly over to achieve that. Duh.
- Vyx36, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Hail Larry and Sergey, mein fhurers!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6How long would it be in beta though I wonder...
- GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4nowadays, your homepage personalizes itself for you
- Icecream, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Looks like Umbrella Corp
- iSlayer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Exactly...it doesnt make sense that they would buy so much dark fiber and not do anything with it. Better and faster search results my arse....they are rolling something out and its big!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm more interested in seeing Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T lose all their DSL/Cable customers then anything. My hate for them is very strong. =x
I wanna see Google murder the big telco's - ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That's what they say about the Google OS.... wait.. there's still no GOS. :(
- shoover, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Of course they aren't building an ISP!! They said they weren't competing with Microsoft Office, or Ebay, or AOL/ MSN messenger or... Er.. Hang on just one stinking minute!
- MikeCampo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2yeah wjhat the hel else woul dit b e for??? only a matter of time until we have insane ly fast internets,
- therernospoons, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Then what is the deal with them blanketing San Francisco and other cities with free Wi-Fi? Isn't that considered being an "internet service provider?"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i don't see the evil in keeping your business strategy under wraps, especially if your google since you've got all the tech world scared of you.
- GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Google won't stop until they index the entire observable universe, and then the speculation on what lies behind it
- dgolding, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2The rumors floating around last week were from extremely unreliable sources. Google's ISP stuff is done almost entirely in partnership with Earthlink. Google is not a carrier culture, and they don't want to become one - they like offering higher layer services.
- riverfr0zen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1totally. they should have seen the separation of their business from content/transport providers to only transport providers, and capitalized on the niche of transport when they had the chance.
now, i just i hope they choke. - GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1huh? a generation of.. what did you say, old man?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0 A few years ago,I wrote them and suggested they offer an email service..I got a reply from a real person saying they preferred to dedicate themselves to what the do best and that was search.
My GMail is..... - bks1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I think that they will be getting into the content delivery business pretty soon, with IP TV and WiMAX networks to deliver the content at ultra high speeds directly to the home........think about it, google is an advertising play.
They can no insert ads directly to your TV when you are watching prime time - google here, google there, serving ads anywhere.
The bigger question should be which Broadband wireless ISP is google going to buy? - i440, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Phew. That's a relief. Now, we can expect Net Neutrality to occur as planned without any of Google's "do no evil" BS.
- bkdb9, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0But they also denied gbrowser or whatever it was supposedly called.
- xXShadowstormXx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Google making an operating system...now how awesome would that be? =)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1In old Soviet Russia, homepage personalize YOU!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I thought their goal was to sell advertising.
Well, actually, I thought their goal was for all the insiders to sell 9 billion dollars worth of stock over the last 12 months- and theyve succeeded. - joshfraz, on 10/12/2007, -19/+3so much for all the rumors that were floating around last week. people should take this as a lesson not to pay attention to stupid speculation.
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