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Caught in Google’s Web?

I’ve been reading Robert Cringely’s PBS.org column for many years now. I like the way he writes about technology, although many of his articles are more esoteric than I care to get in to (or am able to understand). I really enjoyed today’s piece on Google: “When Being a Verb is Not Enough: Google wants to be YOUR Internet.”

There is this:

Google loves secrecy. That they’ve been acquiring fiber assets hasn’t been a secret, but the sheer volume of these acquisitions HAS been. Why? One thought is that it kept down the price since people didn’t really know it was Google snatching up this stuff (they’ve done it under a number of different corporate names). But if price was the issue, then why hasn’t Google just bought the companies that own the fiber? It made no sense

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