Within a few years, Google's network will be The Network. With dark fiber and data centers around the globe, with content indexing (web full-text and directories, images, video, newsgroups, product catalogs) and content acceleration, with desktop search tools, image tools and content creation tools, Google is setting up an unparallelled infrastructure imperium. People connecting to the "Internet" will connect to the Google Network instead, populated with data by various content providers. Does the name "Compuserve" rings a bell?
Update: thinking about it some more. What would content producers and advertisers pay for market data gathered by Google's acceleration service? Knowing who read what, coming from where, for how long?
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Tracked on May 8, 2005 09:45 PM
It won't be "dark fiber" any more if Google is using it.
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