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Google Seeks to Develop Parallel Internet?
KhanReaper writes "As reported on On the Media and Business 2.0, Google appears to be purchasing dark (unused) fiber optic cable across the United States with the intention of building its own alternative parallel internet that would presumably be called GoogleNet. Possessing such a thing could allow Google to offer internet access in the form of free wifi or other means and create a powerful captive marketing audience which Google could monopolize. Outside of these marketing opportunities, such a development in infrastructure could help reduce Google's long-term content delivery costs were it to take on more bandwidth-intensive activities in the future."
At least there's never any confusion over what google's inventions are going to be called.
Curious to see exactly what they have in mind..
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Hey, if it's free internet, I don't care if it's from SCO, sign me up!
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... "Google Seeks to Develop Parallel Universe?"
They would have to change name to Sky, but you never know...
Google hires an operating system engineer.
Clearly Google is writing the operating system to a super space robot that will be used to eradicate Microsoft!
Google buys a company that makes photo organizer software.
Clearly Google is doing this so that they can recreate iPhoto, as a preliminary step to creating competing products to iCal, iDisk, Apple Mail, and finally Mac OS X itself!
Google hires a janitor.
Clearly that janitor is secretly a superhero with super-strength which Google will use to eliminate all crime on earth!
Google buys up some disused fiber-optic cable.
Clearly Google is going to make their own internet!
I think they should do that
They're forking the internet again!
There would be no bigger prize than GoogleNet. Like the internet and Internet2 before it, GoogleNet will be hacked and polluted with porn, movie uploads, warez and viagra spam.
I don't give it a month before it loses its virginity in the back seat of a Cisco router.
In other news "Microsoft Seeks to Develop Parallel Universe".
"GoogleNet" sounds a bit too much like "SkyNet" for my sensibilities. Of course, if any company were to bring about Armageddon, I'd trust Google to do it in the most efficient, user-freindly and non-evil way.
In Soviet Russia, backwards is everything.
I'm indifferent on the matter
Behold the glorious bragging rights
Well, that would be the logical reason. However, this is slashdot. We need more Google conspiracy posts.
Google technicians have lost the ability to administer part of their server farm. It appears that a group of systems has independently begun buying up unused networks for a yet unknown purpose. Wireless access points popping up all over the world with the SSID GoogleNet have prompted some paranoid conspiratorialist to claim an autonomous attack on privacy is underway. Others claim it's a plan create an alternative network, and once completed will overcome and destroy the Internet. At this point Google could levy any access fees they feel like and reach total network dominance.
When asked for a comment, a Google representative just shrugged and said, "Uhhh, dunno, but if I don't run I'm going to miss my free lunch."
"What do you despise? By this are you truly known." --Princess Irulan, Manual of Muad'Dib
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Instead of transmitting data 1 bit at a time, it will transmit 8 bits, so will be 8 times faster.
Lemming.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Didn't I hear that Google hired Al Gore? Maybe they are making their own internet...
Why not. Perhaps it's better if all of the Googleness, including all of the breathless press coverage, could be confined to a stand-alone network. All of those that have been Touched By The Googly Appendage will live blissfully within a completely self-containted universe where all news is about, and reported by Google. CommanderToogle's new site, slashdot.goo, will have new and improved moderation choices:
1) Completely About Google
2) Mostly About Google
3) At Least Somewhat About Google
4) Funny, But Not At Google's Expense
5) Troogle
6) Undergoogled
7) Overgoogled (very rare - can there be too much Google?)
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
I think Occam's Razor is pretty much considered blasphemy on /.
Four roommates. No microwave. You do the math.
You appear to be the only person in this universe to hvae read it that way, but several thousand people in a parallel universe where the only difference from this one is that the universe is known as the "interverse" made this mistake.
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Most Geeks will attest to their dislike of the Sun (not SUN MICRO), this will work better as public acceptance grows. No more will we have to waste money on Foreign oil to light our internets.
And most important of all, on a dark internet nobody knows your downloading porn.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
Who is Katrina? Why was she eating curry if it affects her so badly?
Curiosity was framed; ignorance killed the cat. -- Author unknown
And if Google applies their anti-free speech engine to network nodes, freedom virtually faces extinction.
Who cares!
What if Google applies their SafeSearch filtering alghorithm to network nodes, porn virtually faces extinction!
oh teh noes!!!11!
"What do you despise? By this are you truly known." --Princess Irulan, Manual of Muad'Dib
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Gspot... no?
So, am I supposed to start up by GPC, wait for my GoogleOS to load, open up my GoogleFox, connect to Googlenet, and search Google, while chatting with my friends on GoogleTalk? Geeze, do they really think Google will control EVERYTHING? I think they're a little smarter than to overextend themselves THAT much. Google's fastest growing product: GoogleHype. It's still in Beta though...
And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be bannana-shaped.
You can close your connection anytime you like, but you can never leave!
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" - Plato
Google plans to offer broadband over powerlines. Al Gore plans to help create the next internet, and bring internet TV to the masses with current TV. Apple plans to offer Itunes over the new internet, through Googles new internet based linux operating system.
Now all we have to do is bring Nintendo into the fold and get some of the gaming companies involved. I look forward to the day where I can play games online through wifi from anywhere.
Here are some URLs to back up my statements.
Al Gore, Google, Current TV, Broadband Over PowerLines
Information on who Google is hiring Google Hiring
Google will hire all the best Phd students from the elite universities first. Once Google becomes so large that they run out of Phd students from elite universities, then they will begin hiring us! So I'm now in love with Google. Google if you are reading this PLEASE PLEASE give me a job, even if I'm just doing something completely stupid, I'm sure with all the millions of jobs you are creating that you'll find something for me.
I hope Google continues to innovate because these innovations are creating jobs by the millions. Building a new internet would create millions of jobs for all of us. Building a new OS would create thousands of jobs. I hope Google gets involved with the gaming industry and lets me have access to a video game search engine. I hope they let us gamble and bet on games. I hope Google creates a new video game stock market where we can bet on the success or failure of games. GIMME MONEY DAMNIT!
According to sources inside the company the new universe would be called a Googlelarity. Instead of marketing discrete groups of users, Google plans on marketing entire civilizations after seeding suitable planets with protolife and making content delivery part of the evolutionary process.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Well thanks for that definition I thought for a while there that Dark Fiber was fiber laid by the Orcs of Khazad-Dum as directed by the Dark Lord Sauron for his sinster parallel Dark Internet with the Witch King of Angmar as the system administrator.
Yes, but is it an evil internet?
/me puts pinky to the corner of his mouth
to the dark side.
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You can't handle the truth.
Exactly WHAT would you be looking for? Do you somehow have the superhuman ability to see light between 1530 and 1570 nm?
All I have to say is if they do this I want them to make my daily porn intake a enjoyable experience.. Please no pop-ups as I see Pam Anderson pop out of her shirt!!
Ah, forgot to mention: this is not GoogleNet - it is GoogleGrid.
You aren't remembered for doing what is expected of you
What do you think Google needs all those dark fibers for? To lit them with red light, of course! :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Given that some of the Iridium electrons are s-electrons with zero angular momentum and a certain probability to be at the nucleus, does that mean they actually planned for a few satellites to fall straightly back to earth?
BTW, I guess the reason they failed is that they didn't manage to properly delocalize the satellites
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.