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."

Comments

GoogleNet?

[wmspringer]

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..

Free internet.

[Poromenos1]

Hey, if it's free internet, I don't care if it's from SCO, sign me up!

Re:Free internet.

[kosmicki]

*Poof!*

You arrive on the island of naked women (with real nice tits). They hate outsiders, they have weapons. Your foot long woodpecker flees as soon as it gets wind of your impending doom.

As you take flight to the other side of the island, you come across an all-you-can-eat buffet. Composed entirely of decomposing meat and various species of wood.

Running past the line of dining condors and termites, you fall into a giant pit. There are lots of handholds out, however, there is lube all over them. Lots of lube.

You soon feel hungry (due to your obscenely active metabolism) and get very hungry.

Night falls, it is dark.

You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

You people are insane.

[Anonymous Coward]

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!

Yea, and it will get married in white too.

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Or Maybe

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, that would be the logical reason. However, this is slashdot. We need more Google conspiracy posts.

Gentlemen, start your .GOO registration engines

[ScentCone]

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?)

Google wifi hot spots.

[NotRangerJoe]

Gspot... no?