“SAN FRANCISCO - Search giant Google Inc. may invest into a joint venture that lays high-speed trans-Pacific cable under the ocean, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.”
The first thing that really sticks out to me is how this article describes Google. Google is no longer just a “search giant.” They are far more than a search company now and they should be treated as such, but people are reluctant to realize that and make the change.
“”Additional infrastructure for the Internet is good for users and there are a number of proposals to add a Pacific submarine cable,” said a Google spokesman in a statement, declining to comment further.”
Now getting into the meat of the article and what Google actually is proposing to do and thinking about doing. So why would Google need to have access to their own [fiber] lines under the ocean? I suspect it is directly linked to the gPhone news floating around the web.
With the amount of data that Google transfers over the web, per second, is growing everyday and they now realize that they need their own backbone infrastructure throughout the world. I know that Savvis is one provider for Google already, but Google is moving in the direction of providing their own Internet now.
Will this increase our “dependency” on Google? Probably. Am I alone on this one?
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