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I never understood Google's desire to keep things like GGC tight to the chest. Another search engine isn't going to win or lose based upon their ability to run
by alexgartrell 13y ago
I never understood Google's desire to keep things like GGC tight to the chest. Another search engine isn't going to win or lose based upon their ability to run caching http proxies in ISP data centers.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoTrue but I always felt that GGC telegraphed Google's move into richer data streams (like video, and potentially telephony) so having the information out there would cause people to understand they were a competitor not a partner. Looking at it from the outside, both the challenges in the Google TV project and the Apple TV project stem, in part, by vigorous roadblocking on the part of the content providers. So you partner with Xfinity for the last might, great, but you have the capability to pump better content over that pipe than they do? Not so great. The bottom line seems to be the less you know the harder it is to guess what they can and cannot do.
- sbarre 13y agoPutting a GGC server at your ISP is one step closer to having you as a direct customer (like in Kansas and other Google Fiber test markets), and cutting out the middle-man entirely (in this case, your current ISP).