Google Explains ISP Rumors

WindozeSux writes to mention a Wired article explaining why Google bought all that dark fiber, the event that spurred rumors they were planning an ISP. From the article: "When asked by Wired News whether Google was buying up dark fiber, a company spokesman replied that 'Google has and will continue to invest in the equipment our company needs to give our users around the world the best and fastest search results.' Rumors of Google as an ISP were also fueled by the company being granted a large block of new IPv6 addresses last year." They plan to restrict their role as an ISP to the Mountain View and San Francisco areas.

2001:4860::/32

[sa3]

Rumors of Google as an ISP were also fueled by the company being granted a large block of new IPv6 addresses last year.

A /32 is nothing - it's the minimum size you can advertise globally.

Re:2001:4860::/32

[sa3]

The last 64 bits are for auto-negotiation, so your /64 does one LAN.
A /48 should be assigned to end users, who can then use as many /64s as needed (up to 65536).
So a /32 is just 65536 /48s, which isn't much.

Re:Telco Miscalc

[dotdevin]

Last I checked Google software was not open source.

Re:Walmart syndrome

[giorgiofr]

Slashdot cut out the Euro symbol from my post so I'm not sure if it was clear that I was talking about a non-US entity. Anyway the ISP is Tiscali, they've got a few million users in Europe.

Re:Google as an ISP

[TheSkepticalOptimist]

Have to agree, their customer service is arrogant and for the most part, mostly automated.

My website was accused of generating clicks, when I tried to plead my case, they refused to listen. When asked to review the matter, like 4 months later they told me that there was still enough evidence to suggest I was artificially clicking on ads to generate revenue.

The amount of revenue I had generated was about $3.50 worth and was aquired when I was developing the website and was testing it with friends and family. I should have turned off the Google ads during development, as I realize that because the ad views and clicks were originating from largely the same few IP's that they might consider this fraud, but I mean, come on, I ripped off Google $3.50. I couldn't even buy 1/10 of a stock from Google for that amount.

Since then, I have been blacklisted from Google's ad program and it took about a year for my website to finally be listed on Google despite multiple links from external pages and using services to register on various search engines including Google.

Google thinks they are self riteous mostly because they probably don't have enough staff to properly handle customer service, instead, they rely on bots to determine seemingly fraudulant activities and then generate automated emails telling you why you suck.

When I look back, I had 2 emails as well, one to accuse me, one telling me they will ignore me. Google doesn't believe the customer is always right, which is why I doubt them as a real customer service company will fail.

Hey, I at least deserve the right to be told I suck from a live person. At least then I can tell them to f*ck off!

Re:Google Skynet

[rm69990]

Ummm, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Google the only major search engine who fought the Government over their subpoena, instead of bending over and taking it up the ass like the other search engines did? Of course, you could go back to AT&T, all they do is feed all of your data directly to the NSA ;-)