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| What Google is really up to
Well, at least my guess...
They're probably going to use this network to improve the performance of their search engine. They can do this by placing dedicated boxes at various large hosting companies around the country and use them to index pages. This would be much quicker, since the Web sites would be on the same LAN as the machine running the indexing bot. And all that data has to get back to Google's central servers, which is what the network is for. Having such a network would also be useful for audio, video, and image searches, which will suck up large amounts of bandwidth. In addition, Google could use the infrastructure to sell customized services to large businesses, such as real-time searches of far-flung data in various locations. |
