Google Opens U.K. Cybercafe and Testing Lab

sebFlyte writes "Google has launched a new venture in England to go with its London offices. They've set up a free Web cafe style affair at London's Heathrow airport to help travelers claw back some of the many hours they spend aimlessly wandering round airport lounges. They're not doing it entirely selflessly though: they admit the main reason they're doing it is to get as wide and as large a cross section of people through the centre as they can so that they can then watch them interact with Google's Web applications. ZDNet has photos, too."

Moon Base

[ZiakII]

I'm still waiting for a spot to open on there moon base......any second now they'll call me and tell me I'm hired..

I don't get it ...

[xmas2003]

I read this a while back and I still don't get it. Is this some area where you can basically surf whereever/whatever you want to do ... or are you restricted to only using Google Applications so they can see how you interact with them? The later makes more sense from a Google User Interface point of view ... but if I were a traveler, I just want a (fast/open/free) wireless connection to do what I want to do - I'm confused how observing that could be so useful to Google. And heck, they track me anyway with their cookies! ;-)

Re:Hmm... Noticed something...

[Anonymous Coward]

Not even Google can afford to support IE on a semi-public network.

Table of Contents for all Google News

[kai.chan]

To save Slashdot readers some time in the future in all Google related News Stories. Let me provide a universal Table of Contents to summarize the posts that will inevitably follow:

Introduction of our Overlord:
- How many Google News Stories will we see today?
- "I am tired of hearing about Google!"
- I, for one, welcome our Google (topic) overlords

Chapter 1 Obligatory:
- Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of (topic)
- Does (topic) run Linux
- Step1: (topic), Step2: ???, Step3: Profit

Chapter 2 Conspiracy:
- Google = New Microsoft??
- Google = Skynet
- Is Google only friendly on the outside?
- Case Study: a guy who knows a guy that works at some company claiming Google as the next biggest competitor!!!
- Google Fight claims that all of the above are true!

Chapter 3 Downfall
- Is Google too big?
- Does Google have enough funding to branch out so much?

Conclusion Finale:
- Is Google going to be hit by a flying chair?
- Future of Google, such as GoogleOS and Google Condoms



You all know that it is true.

Re:Table of Contents for all Google News

[ethzer0]

Conclusion Finale:
- Is Google going to be hit by a flying chair?
- Future of Google, such as GoogleOS and Google Condoms


Googledoms?

o Protect yourself against viruses?
o They'd probably come in blue, red, yellow and green.
o If my query returns more results, do I get more OOOooooooo's ?