Google Begins Revolutionizing the World
Friday, October 07, 2005
Google has leased a huge 270,000 square feet of space in the former Port Authority Commerce Building in Chelsea, in New York. It is one of New York's most important telecom-carrier hotels, home to thousands of web servers and other critical technology infrastructure.
Google is beginning to build a network of, so far, free world-wide (at least Nation-wide right now) Internet access - which, if Google follows through to the end, would probably be the largest corporate undertaking in the history of the Internet. But, they have over 7 billion dollars to spend - why not?
If you haven't already, watch the EPIC 2015 (link above in intro) - by Robin Sloan, this is so far an accurate prediction. Google may be preparing for providing not just free WiFi and Internet, but also free web hosting. This is one of the most saturated markets on the web, and would put most (estimated about 95%) of the web hosting companies out of business. While it may kill the Internet economy, some sites will have their own servers while others will be too lazy to move.
And now that you've read this, I don't want you complaining about Google becoming a money-hungry empire (that reminds me of Microsoft) that is out to take over the world and become a monopoly. First, Google does not charge for, I'd say, 85% of their services. Microsoft? Around 5%-10%. Also, Google is going to fulfil their mission statement to the max (their mission statement is above) at this rate. Free web hosting with nearly unlimited bandwidth and space would be the Google Grid, as explained in the flash presentation. Then, after combining all of their services, you will end up with, what else, but the EPIC: The Evolving Personalized Information Construct.
Comments on this are welcome.
And, on a side-note, Google has released their Google RSS Reader: here.
Google is beginning to build a network of, so far, free world-wide (at least Nation-wide right now) Internet access - which, if Google follows through to the end, would probably be the largest corporate undertaking in the history of the Internet. But, they have over 7 billion dollars to spend - why not?
If you haven't already, watch the EPIC 2015 (link above in intro) - by Robin Sloan, this is so far an accurate prediction. Google may be preparing for providing not just free WiFi and Internet, but also free web hosting. This is one of the most saturated markets on the web, and would put most (estimated about 95%) of the web hosting companies out of business. While it may kill the Internet economy, some sites will have their own servers while others will be too lazy to move.
And now that you've read this, I don't want you complaining about Google becoming a money-hungry empire (that reminds me of Microsoft) that is out to take over the world and become a monopoly. First, Google does not charge for, I'd say, 85% of their services. Microsoft? Around 5%-10%. Also, Google is going to fulfil their mission statement to the max (their mission statement is above) at this rate. Free web hosting with nearly unlimited bandwidth and space would be the Google Grid, as explained in the flash presentation. Then, after combining all of their services, you will end up with, what else, but the EPIC: The Evolving Personalized Information Construct.
Comments on this are welcome.
And, on a side-note, Google has released their Google RSS Reader: here.
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