Clues point to GoogleNet

Business 2.0's Om Malik connects the dots between some of Google's recent moves, from buying unused fiber-optic cables to sponsoring a public hot spot, and comes up with an intriguing theory:

What if Google wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable of targeting advertising to a user’s precise location? The gatekeeper of the world’s information could become one of the globe’s biggest Internet providers and one of its most powerful ad sellers, basically supplanting telecoms in one fell swoop. ...

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