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echo: barktopus
to: Geo.
from: John Beckett
date: 2007-01-22 21:54:10
subject: Re: Is it the internet? Or Google

From: John Beckett 

"Geo."  wrote in message
news::
> He's only partly figured it out. Google isn't stupid enough to believe that
> they can compete with cable/satellite/broadcast methods even with all the
> bandwidth on the planet.

I like the theory that Google are getting bandwidth to move data between
their data centres in cheap locations, and getting bandwidth as a hedge
against Internet carriers who might one day be successful in their attempt
to charge Google a fee to present their content to clients.

John

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