Google’s long bathroom rumors

They sure have been buying a lot of fiber. Get it now? Eh? The fiber.. Anywho, the rumor mill over what Google is doing with the dark fiber, the acquired telco building in New York, the $100 Google cube PC, the Google Office, Google Linux. We get it, its a big company with $400/share stock price and they can use the funds at their disposal to do anything. The latest rumor: Google to build its own private global IP network. This, as usual, is bringing out a lot of people concerned over the privacy and how this could lead to Google limiting access only to the web sites that pay for their service. Oh, really? And how is Google going to hook into the Cable jack in my bedroom? The last mile has always been an issue, both for cable and still for ma bell. So let me see if I can settle this would destroying my tall stack of NDA's: Every big private company that has a lot of information on its hands does not want to store it in a single place. Over time it becomes simultaneously impractical, expensive and even impossible to do multi-master replication. Sure, Google has a lot of cash to spend and a lot of ambitions, but at the end of the day Google is an advertising company. Everything else is given away for free in hopes that users would be dragged to their properties to click on ads. So needless to say that every time GOOG shares go up 10% there will be rumors of them taking down Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and DOJ in one swoop. In reality, they just want you to click on ads. As do I. It's called "making money" and despite all the no evil stuff, it is all about the cold hard cash.