tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35667542.post6775779177054767127..comments2023-09-16T09:28:49.382-05:00Comments on Five Minute Genius: All your bandwidth--and your money?--belong to GoogleDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11344921564741099054noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35667542.post-2269199667592309552007-04-07T09:34:00.000-05:002007-04-07T09:34:00.000-05:00True, though I think Google wants to:Enable order-...True, though I think Google wants to:<BR/><BR/>Enable order-of-magnitude greater bandwidth without order-of-magnitude greater prices (internet as the new television);<BR/>Do it for smaller sites;<BR/>Do it for larger sites as an infrastructure provider.<BR/><BR/>If certain areas can stream movie or television content at only incremental bandwidth price increases, that would constitute a Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11344921564741099054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35667542.post-3314104872140631212007-04-07T04:38:00.000-05:002007-04-07T04:38:00.000-05:00This is tangential to your point, but...akamai did...This is tangential to your point, but...<BR/><BR/>akamai did the get-content-closer-to-the-user routine back in '99. I'm not sure how much caching local copies of, say, the top 500K on Alexa will really help, since most -- certainly more than half of the top 500 sites on the net -- already do something like this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35667542.post-58200596756422480752007-01-19T21:27:00.000-06:002007-01-19T21:27:00.000-06:00Interesting. You're saying that no one is quite in...Interesting. You're saying that no one is quite in a position to think as grandiose as Google is, because of their combination of business dominance and ability to execute technologically.<br /><br />I agree. We've never seen anything like Google before. It does seem unlikely that their biggest plans would fall flat on their face. <br /><br />Things that fail from smart companies tend to be Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com