http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/ Engadget Comments for Google's buying more fiber, WiFi pages and new software found http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/
I wouldn't dump my DSL line for an ad based free service (remember netzero back when it was actually free??? LAME...) but rolling around with my laptop would become that much easier, what with all the cell phone companies crippiling their phones so you can't dial up thru them.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/
"It is your concern, when your
neighbour's wall is on fire"

Still a bit cryptic, but makes somewhat more sense.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/
It is your concern too when your neighbor's house is burning.

In its proper context it means that if you don't help out your neighbor during a fire, that your house will soon go up in flames.

So presumable Google is about to go down and this is their appeal for help ;)]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/
If it drops connections like my cell phone, then I'll only use it when I'm on the road.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Firewall?]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/
This is VPN. You connect to the internet in any way, and then send your packets to Google. Google then forwards it on, and sends it back. It's pretty simple.

Yes, Google has a few hotspots set up in the Bay Area. That makes sense, since they are from the Bay Area. I think it's jumping to conclusions to say that 2005: Bay Area leads to 2006: .

Anyway, this is still important. A public VPN through google could lead to some headaches for the RIAA -- when they try and sue someone, how happy are they going to be when a Google VPN IP shows up?

And yes, someday Google might be an ISP, but this is not inevitable given the facts we currently have.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/
juliuss,
By the pictures above, it seems like a Google WiFi hotspot must be used. That would make Google an ISP, right? I haven't wrapped my mind around this thing yet, so feel free to help me out.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/
And Google does have other hotspots currently -- Bryant Park in NYC for example has WiFi "sponsored by google." I've used it a lot. I think this nation-wide wifi would be great, but it just doesn't make much sense right now. It cost the telcos billions to roll out a nationwide cell network (which has longer range) so to think google will be doing anything nationwide with wifi right away I think is, um... premature.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/
"Using insecure networks, such as public wireless networks, can leave your internet traffic open to snooping by others in the vicinity of the wireless network. Google Secure Access helps address this problem by encrypting all traffic from and to your machine and passing it from the insecure network through a trusted gateway. If you choose to use Google Secure Access, your internet traffic will be encrypted and sent through Google's servers to the internet, then received from those servers to be encrypted and sent back through our servers to your computer."

So in addition to developing their own wireless network for us to use and Google to monitor, they are now the "middle man" for all other wireless networks that we use.... and Google to monitor.

So lets run the tally on what Google can monitor and use:
Ethernet Traffic: Check (Google Toolbar)
Wireless Traffic: Check (Google Secure Access)
Google Wireless: Check (It's theirs)
Corporate Documents: Check (Google Search Appliance)

"My CPU is a neuronet processor, a learning computer."]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/
This is how all VPN systems work, isn't it? You first connect to the server, and then all your traffic goes through that server. This is just the nature of VPN technology, not Google trying to become the middleman.

I think it's a great idea, too many people use wireless networks with no protection, and google probably just doesn't want to expose themselves to liability.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/While privacy concerns in a Goog-centralized net are reasonable, comparing the protection of WEP versus VPN is like comparing the protection of a cardboard box to Fort Knox.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/
http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2005/mft05092015.htm?ref=foolwatch]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/
You'll buy an inexpensive wifi phone that will only connect to GoogleNet and the price will be much less than any of the other carriers.

But they'll probably first offer it as a wireless national ISP. Then they'll roll out the phones and destroy Verizon/Sprint/Nextel etc. with one shot.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/if they are able to provide gmail users with about 1mb each per day (and think how many gmail users there are and how many sign up all the time) then they can obviously afford a lot of stuff to test out stuff etc]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/googles-buying-more-fiber-wifi-pages-and-new-software-found/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM