Interesting article on how Google may plan to take over the internet • Non-Gaming • Science & Technology • Eurogamer.net

terminalterror 19 Nov 2005 15:16:44 18,932 posts
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Basically it goes into how Google for a large sum of money (albiet trivial for them) possibly intend to create their own super version of Akamai, a giant global cache of the internet with datacentres at all major internet hubs, basically slapping their own Google internet over the top of the regular internet to make everything more efficient and make them a lot of money.

Freek 19 Nov 2005 15:35:48 7,682 posts
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Sounds like the intro to Terminator, except without all the nuclear anihilation and robots.

Deleted user 19 November 2005 16:49:05

Google hired a pair of very bright industrial designers to figure out how to cram the greatest number of CPUs, the most storage, memory and power support into a 20- or 40-foot box. We're talking about 5000 Opteron processors and 3.5 petabytes of disk storage that can be dropped-off overnight by a tractor-trailer rig. The idea is to plant one of these puppies anywhere Google owns access to fiber, basically turning the entire Internet into a giant processing and storage grid.

O_o Pretty wicked idea, love it!

Lutzie 19 Nov 2005 16:50:50 952 posts
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/registers the name "skynet"
/sells to google for Ł1 billion
/watches world go up in smoke.

Deleted user 19 November 2005 18:01:49

i bet Google is really the CIA.

bivith 24 Nov 2005 11:16:26 2,469 posts
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For the slow kids at the back. Cringely's site is not a news site. It's a tech column. He looks at recent news stories relating to the computer industry, and then tries to figure out what the real story is. So the article isn't "did you know google built these server container thingys", which is news. The article is about why they are buying them, and what are they going to do with them. which is interesting.

Kronos 24 Nov 2005 11:48:03 794 posts
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I still dont get how google make their money. Can someone explain plz.

RedboX 24 Nov 2005 11:54:10 2,427 posts
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Lutzie wrote:
/registers the name "skynet"

too late, Sky's internal data network was called that back in the early 90's.

RedboX 24 Nov 2005 11:54:56 2,427 posts
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Kronos wrote:
I still dont get how google make their money. Can someone explain plz.

Adverts, and lots of them

Deleted user 24 November 2005 12:02:48

If I do a search for, say, "espresso", I get a bar at the right with hand picked espresso links, in my localized language. That's pretty much it, strange as it may sound...

Deleted user 24 November 2005 12:05:16

Kronos wrote:
I still dont get how google make their money. Can someone explain plz.

Read an article about them and they seem to employ bright young things straight out of Uni, let them play and invent stuff and then worry about how to make money out of it afterwards. If you're a techie type it must be a great place to work.

bivith 24 Nov 2005 12:27:09 2,469 posts
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Kronos wrote:
I still dont get how google make their money. Can someone explain plz.

Adwords for a start.

otto Moderator 28 May 2007 11:16:19 49,322 posts
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Can I old him? ;p

otto Moderator 28 May 2007 11:16:19 49,322 posts
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Lutzie wrote:
/registers the name "skynet"
/sells to google for Ł1 billion
/watches world go up in smoke.

Too late - my old ISP.

otto Moderator 28 May 2007 11:16:19 49,322 posts
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otto wrote:
Can I old him? ;p

My apologies, it's his latest column. Though he does seem to recycle the same column pretty much every week.