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So why would they want to buy Akamai?

• adambyrtek 15y ago
  Probably to get into the CDN business. Making the web faster is one of Google's strategic goals, and they try to achieve it by many different means.
  • muzz 15y ago
    Google is essentially its own CDN: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/03/18/google-boosts-peering-to-save-on-bandwidth/ http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/03/18/googl... Why would they want to make other sites on the web faster?
    • namityadav 15y ago
      Google has always wanted to make web faster. See http://code.google.com/speed/articles/ http://code.google.com/speed/articles/ . And I'm sure you know about various Google tools (including Chrome) that try to speed up web. They rely very heavily on web, and it's absolutely important for them to speed up web for people to keep moving away from native.