On Wednesday 11 May 2005 23:27, Guido Sohne wrote: > Mark Tinka wrote: > >I don't see the business sense, but hey, this is a > >techie's list :). > > 1) Quality of service. If Google has lots of > bandwidth, which they do, and you are "well-connected" > Akamai style to Google, then you may benefit from > Google fetching the pages for you.
Yes, but unless I'm missing something, improved QoS to the user, fine, but of what benefit is this service to Google, if random Internet users are going to use Google resources to access other online content they are *really* interested in? > > 2) Updating Google's index. If they combine the fetch > with indexing the content, then they can have a > "fresher" view of the Internet ... consider live usage > of the web as a hint on what pages to prioritize for > your next crawl. And why bother to crawl when you have > it already because you fetched the page for the end > user? This is smarter than blindly crawling and > recrawling. Again, good for user? How good for Google? > > 3) Maintain market share. Google is popular partly > because of their approach to making their site a > service and not a nuisance. Having more services that > people find useful will help to stave off strong > counterattacks by Yahoo! and Microsoft. If people are > happier with Google, they will be more likely to stay > with Google. To sum it up, I think this whole endeavour would be good for Google if: a) Google were a service provider (where they make money from providing connectivity and offer their accelerator as a value-add product). b) While web browsing using common web browsers, Google-centric information or advertisers using Google's web presence would have pop-up dialog boxes pop-up in and around your browsers, earning Google some money (just like most free p2p file sharing software). c) The accelerator were only usable *inside* some kind of Google browser/sand box that is encased around marketing or other such information taking advantage of Google's web presence, hence, earning Google some money. In short, what I think Google are doing are offering some kind of 'FreeNet' clone service, where they use resources and infrastructure to provide a service to random users. Since the accelerator appears to be designed to connect to mothership, what is the long-term benefit for Google? Mark. > > -- G. > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
