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Posted By:
ryanlash
447 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.latimes.com)
Category: Google Other
I call it the ultimate power play: to control both internet content (search results) and access to it.
-RL
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That would be interesting. I wonder if the idea won't be fought both by the FCC and other ISPs.
They are going for world domination and who can blame em!
yep, world domination, for only 5-Billion-Dollars!
That's quite a ransom, right Mr. Bigglesworth?
The thing that nobody is realizing relates not to search results, but to the implications if Google dominates the wireless world and then integrates cell phone data (i.e. gps) with Google Earth! This story here on Sphinn http://sphinn.com/story/1056 starts that discussion...
Google's power with such a purchase would be unbelievable. And yet, the ability for us, as consumers, to have such an open network is tempting. I don't know how to feel about this.
I'm with DazzlinDonna on this one!
Since the company's motto is "do no evil", then I say let them have it. If you can't trust a company that promises to do no evil then who can ya trust? (ha)
It will certainly be useful to have access to internet from
It would be very useful to have access to internet from wireless services. And it is great to have Internet Giant google to bid for this service. It will surely improve the accesibility of internet from wireless phones.