Google’s foray into the television industry has been talked about since the Big G launched video search last year, and subsequently began working with TiVo last April. And now a recent Google job posting, several interesting domain registrations, and the GoogleNet buzz, which will allow pinpoint ad targeting, are evidencing a buildup to the next generation of television.
Google Building Alternative Internet
Google is working on its most ambitious project to date, the creation of a global data transfer network that could effectively serve as a private Internet.
Blogging On Google Alerts Not Crawling For Blogs
Many people get Google news alerts. They’re pretty simple. You pick your topic, say the timely subject of hurricanes. When hurricane stories appear, you get an email. You can pick the frequency upon which they appear and whether or not the alert scoura just the news or the entire web.
Authors Guild Sues Google
A class action suit against Google was filed today in federal court in Manhattan on behalf of the Authors Guild, two authors, and a poet, alleging massive copyright infringement as a result of Google Print for Libraries project.
Google Print Has Legal Support
Though copyright law predates the Internet, case law has been established regarding the indexing of copyrighted material, and it has come out in favor of the indexer. Publishers who have issues with Google’s Print for Libraries project may end up with little more than hurt feelings.
Who Is Data Docket Inc. And Why Does Google Love Them?
Last Friday, a blogger by the handle of Gootch may have stumbled upon a trail of breadcrumbs that leads us to Google’s next big release: an online storage system, similar to AOL’s Xdrive, called (what else?) Gdrive, as well as a mystery company connected to Google and a few odd domain names.
The US of G: Google’s Plan To Connect The World
Let’s have fun with letters-descramble DWDM GMPLS ROADM WIMAX. The answer? US of G, as Google rumors continue to circulate about a nation united by cutting edge fiber optic technology that could make the Internet as accessible and free as radio.
Google Stars In An Internet Of Their Own
There’s no crying in network development, not when the first $100 million price tag will be a blip on one’s $4.1 billion secondary stock offering proceeds.
Google Secures Wireless Access
The company’s experimental wireless network in San Francisco can be accessed with a new VPN tool.
Google Can’t Find Penguins In Alaska
And neither can anyone else, since the short flightless waterfowl only live in the Southern Hemisphere.