think about it. google is the largest, best search engine in the world that everyone knows and loves to use. right? well, look at thier product now: you can search for images, text, news, usegroups, hell, you can even go shopping on it. i mean, i typed in "dkjgs" to spawn a browser window on it in safari and it displayed 6 responses!
the thing is, google right now has to search all the content on the web from computers it runs and has to go out and find the files you're looking for on other computers. (correct me if i'm wrong here, i know that slashdot is the place for that) but... imagine if all of that content that their machines had to find was already stored internally on the network harddrives. it would be so much easier.
by offering everyone a full gigabyte of space, people will out everything in there that they need. you could be at work and have a harddrive from home there. if you have a fast connection, you could stream porn in the office! ho ho ho, what a concept! (luckily i don't work in an office, i enjoy said materials in the privacy.. said too much)
the potential for this is incredible, but! to let something like this fall into the hands of big evil corporations would be really, really awful.
anyways, just my two cents, let me know what you think.
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think about it. google is the largest, best search engine in the world that everyone knows and loves to use. right? well, look at thier product now: you can search for images, text, news, usegroups, hell, you can even go shopping on it. i mean, i typed in "dkjgs" to spawn a browser window on it in safari and it displayed 6 responses! the thing is, google right now has to search all the content on the web from computers it runs and has to go out and find the files you're looking for on other computers. (correct me if i'm wrong here, i know that slashdot is the place for that) but... imagine if all of that content that their machines had to find was already stored internally on the network harddrives. it would be so much easier. by offering everyone a full gigabyte of space, people will out everything in there that they need. you could be at work and have a harddrive from home there. if you have a fast connection, you could stream porn in the office! ho ho ho, what a concept! (luckily i don't work in an office, i enjoy said materials in the privacy.. said too much) the potential for this is incredible, but! to let something like this fall into the hands of big evil corporations would be really, really awful. anyways, just my two cents, let me know what you think.