Google Seeks to Develop Parallel Internet?

KhanReaper writes "As reported on On the Media and Business 2.0, Google appears to be purchasing dark (unused) fiber optic cable across the United States with the intention of building its own alternative parallel internet that would presumably be called GoogleNet. Possessing such a thing could allow Google to offer internet access in the form of free wifi or other means and create a powerful captive marketing audience which Google could monopolize. Outside of these marketing opportunities, such a development in infrastructure could help reduce Google's long-term content delivery costs were it to take on more bandwidth-intensive activities in the future."

GoogleNet?

[wmspringer]

At least there's never any confusion over what google's inventions are going to be called.

Curious to see exactly what they have in mind..

Free internet.

[Poromenos1]

Hey, if it's free internet, I don't care if it's from SCO, sign me up!

Who read that as...

[Anonymous Coward]

... "Google Seeks to Develop Parallel Universe?"

SkyNet

[Anonymous Coward]

They would have to change name to Sky, but you never know...

You people are insane.

[Anonymous Coward]

Google hires an operating system engineer.

Clearly Google is writing the operating system to a super space robot that will be used to eradicate Microsoft!

Google buys a company that makes photo organizer software.

Clearly Google is doing this so that they can recreate iPhoto, as a preliminary step to creating competing products to iCal, iDisk, Apple Mail, and finally Mac OS X itself!

Google hires a janitor.

Clearly that janitor is secretly a superhero with super-strength which Google will use to eliminate all crime on earth!

Google buys up some disused fiber-optic cable.

Clearly Google is going to make their own internet!

i think so

[XMyth]

I think they should do that

Damnit

[Anonymous Coward]

They're forking the internet again!

Yea, and it will get married in white too.

[Anonymous Coward]

There would be no bigger prize than GoogleNet. Like the internet and Internet2 before it, GoogleNet will be hacked and polluted with porn, movie uploads, warez and viagra spam.

I don't give it a month before it loses its virginity in the back seat of a Cisco router.

In other news!

[Eminence]

In other news "Microsoft Seeks to Develop Parallel Universe".

Coincidence? I think not.

[ScaryFroMan]

"GoogleNet" sounds a bit too much like "SkyNet" for my sensibilities. Of course, if any company were to bring about Armageddon, I'd trust Google to do it in the most efficient, user-freindly and non-evil way.

I don't know

[iotashan]

I'm indifferent on the matter

Re:Or Maybe

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, that would be the logical reason. However, this is slashdot. We need more Google conspiracy posts.

In other news...

[nmb3000]

Google technicians have lost the ability to administer part of their server farm. It appears that a group of systems has independently begun buying up unused networks for a yet unknown purpose. Wireless access points popping up all over the world with the SSID GoogleNet have prompted some paranoid conspiratorialist to claim an autonomous attack on privacy is underway. Others claim it's a plan create an alternative network, and once completed will overcome and destroy the Internet. At this point Google could levy any access fees they feel like and reach total network dominance.

When asked for a comment, a Google representative just shrugged and said, "Uhhh, dunno, but if I don't run I'm going to miss my free lunch."

Parallel Internet as compared to serialintyernet

[Anonymous Coward]

Instead of transmitting data 1 bit at a time, it will transmit 8 bits, so will be 8 times faster.

Re:Slashdot changes their minds...

[ScrewMaster]

Lemming.

Re:You people are insane.

[Thnikkaman]

"Clearly Google is doing this so that they can recreate iPhoto..."

Have you heard of a little thing called Picasa? [google.com]

Wait a second...

[Anonymous Coward]

Didn't I hear that Google hired Al Gore? Maybe they are making their own internet...

Gentlemen, start your .GOO registration engines

[ScentCone]

Why not. Perhaps it's better if all of the Googleness, including all of the breathless press coverage, could be confined to a stand-alone network. All of those that have been Touched By The Googly Appendage will live blissfully within a completely self-containted universe where all news is about, and reported by Google. CommanderToogle's new site, slashdot.goo, will have new and improved moderation choices:

1) Completely About Google
2) Mostly About Google
3) At Least Somewhat About Google
4) Funny, But Not At Google's Expense
5) Troogle
6) Undergoogled
7) Overgoogled (very rare - can there be too much Google?)

Re:Occam's Razor

[Thnikkaman]

I think Occam's Razor is pretty much considered blasphemy on /.

Just You

[DumbSwede]

You appear to be the only person in this universe to hvae read it that way, but several thousand people in a parallel universe where the only difference from this one is that the universe is known as the "interverse" made this mistake.

Re:Free internet.

[nmb3000]

Then I'll take an island filled with naked women (real nice tits please), with an all-you-can-eat buffet, an obscenely active metabolism, and a foot long pecker.

Oh, and lube. Lots of lube.

I'll let you know if anything else comes to mind.

Two Sides to that

[infonography]

While normal Internet companies use lit fiber Google has turned to the Dark Side. I am not sure how what jives with their Don't be Evil policy but consider the cost savings of not having to use light to transmit data. NO bulbs, no receivers no routers. Just pure net to your door. Perhaps the lit fiber is Evil and Google is showing us the way. Without having to mess with light and it's speed limits our browsers will just fly.

Most Geeks will attest to their dislike of the Sun (not SUN MICRO), this will work better as public acceptance grows. No more will we have to waste money on Foreign oil to light our internets.

And most important of all, on a dark internet nobody knows your downloading porn.

Re:THOUSANDS ARE ABOUT TO DIE BY KATRINA'S WINDS

[bernywork]

Who is Katrina? Why was she eating curry if it affects her so badly?

Re:Only if...

[nmb3000]

And if Google applies their anti-free speech engine to network nodes, freedom virtually faces extinction.

Who cares!

What if Google applies their SafeSearch filtering alghorithm to network nodes, porn virtually faces extinction!

oh teh noes!!!11!

Google wifi hot spots.

[NotRangerJoe]

Gspot... no?

Re:Free internet.

[kosmicki]

*Poof!*

You arrive on the island of naked women (with real nice tits). They hate outsiders, they have weapons. Your foot long woodpecker flees as soon as it gets wind of your impending doom.

As you take flight to the other side of the island, you come across an all-you-can-eat buffet. Composed entirely of decomposing meat and various species of wood.

Running past the line of dining condors and termites, you fall into a giant pit. There are lots of handholds out, however, there is lube all over them. Lots of lube.

You soon feel hungry (due to your obscenely active metabolism) and get very hungry.

Night falls, it is dark.

You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

Google World?

[RobertF]

So, am I supposed to start up by GPC, wait for my GoogleOS to load, open up my GoogleFox, connect to Googlenet, and search Google, while chatting with my friends on GoogleTalk? Geeze, do they really think Google will control EVERYTHING? I think they're a little smarter than to overextend themselves THAT much. Google's fastest growing product: GoogleHype. It's still in Beta though...

Re:i think so

[Aranth Brainfire]

In communist Russia, that thinks you... I mean, should that you think... uh... screw it, someone else do it.

Welcome to the GooglePlex

[hobbit]

You can close your connection anytime you like, but you can never leave!

Al Gore, Google, and Broadband over power lines.

[elucido]

Google plans to offer broadband over powerlines. Al Gore plans to help create the next internet, and bring internet TV to the masses with current TV. Apple plans to offer Itunes over the new internet, through Googles new internet based linux operating system.

Now all we have to do is bring Nintendo into the fold and get some of the gaming companies involved. I look forward to the day where I can play games online through wifi from anywhere.

Here are some URLs to back up my statements.

Al Gore, Google, Current TV, Broadband Over PowerLines [webpronews.com]

Information on who Google is hiring Google Hiring [google.com]

Google will hire all the best Phd students from the elite universities first. Once Google becomes so large that they run out of Phd students from elite universities, then they will begin hiring us! So I'm now in love with Google. Google if you are reading this PLEASE PLEASE give me a job, even if I'm just doing something completely stupid, I'm sure with all the millions of jobs you are creating that you'll find something for me.

I hope Google continues to innovate because these innovations are creating jobs by the millions. Building a new internet would create millions of jobs for all of us. Building a new OS would create thousands of jobs. I hope Google gets involved with the gaming industry and lets me have access to a video game search engine. I hope they let us gamble and bet on games. I hope Google creates a new video game stock market where we can bet on the success or failure of games. GIMME MONEY DAMNIT!

Headlines from the year 2025

[HangingChad]

In other news today speculation abounds that Google is planning the development of a parallel universe. The company has been buying large blocks of so called dark matter, building blocks used in construction of parallel dimensions.

According to sources inside the company the new universe would be called a Googlelarity. Instead of marketing discrete groups of users, Google plans on marketing entire civilizations after seeding suitable planets with protolife and making content delivery part of the evolutionary process.

Re:Dark Fiber

[truckaxle]

Well thanks for that definition I thought for a while there that Dark Fiber was fiber laid by the Orcs of Khazad-Dum as directed by the Dark Lord Sauron for his sinster parallel Dark Internet with the Witch King of Angmar as the system administrator.

Re:Google World?

[spec8472]

You forgot a few things:
You'll read/watch your GoogleNews on your portable next-gen flexible GooglePaper, or listen to it on your Google Radio.

You'll drink GoogleGulp [google.com] to keep your fluids (and brain performance) up. It may even provide all the nutrients you could possibly need.

You'll wear 'smart' Google Wear which will interface with the GoogleChip in your brain to automaticly do searches, make calls over the Free Google-Wireless, and let Google index everything in your head.

Welcome to the GoogleMatrix, plug in.

Re:Who read that as...

[elmegil]

"Google more popular than God"

Re:Free internet.

[thc69]

You arrive on the island of naked women (with real nice tits)...you fall into a giant pit. There are lots of handholds out, however, there is lube all over them. Lots of lube.

Don't forget that the real nice tits keep getting in your way as you try to grab the handholds...

Step 1: Grow big tits.
Step 2: Learn self-oral technique.
Step 3: Gratification!

Obiligitory

[iomud]

Yes, but is it an evil internet?

/me puts pinky to the corner of his mouth

welcome

[roman_mir]

to the dark side.
Brought to you by
your friendly neighbourhood
Google.

Re:Dark Fiber

[birge]

Exactly WHAT would you be looking for? Do you somehow have the superhuman ability to see light between 1530 and 1570 nm?

Google Net - Coming to a universe near you....

[91004]

All I have to say is if they do this I want them to make my daily porn intake a enjoyable experience.. Please no pop-ups as I see Pam Anderson pop out of her shirt!!

Re:It is time to review

[toolz]

Ah, forgot to mention: this is not GoogleNet - it is GoogleGrid.

Re:Coincidence? I think not.

[Anonymous Coward]

That's nothing. There is a UK Ministry of Defence project called SkyNet. I can only assume that someone there has a keen sense of humour.

Re:Only if...

[maxwell demon]

What do you think Google needs all those dark fibers for? To lit them with red light, of course! :-)

Re:Google, meet Motorola

[maxwell demon]

it was originally supposed to have as many satellites as there are protons/electrons in an atom of Iridium, with the constellation resembling the orbits of those electrons.

Given that some of the Iridium electrons are s-electrons with zero angular momentum and a certain probability to be at the nucleus, does that mean they actually planned for a few satellites to fall straightly back to earth?
BTW, I guess the reason they failed is that they didn't manage to properly delocalize the satellites ...