Re:GoogleISP (Score 1)

Tying this is with the recently expanded capability of their enterprise level document search tool (it no longer requires HTTP-only access to documents) perhaps we are not the target here. Currently the enterprise provides the network capacity for their search tool. Perhaps this is an entrepoint to provisioning enterprises.

Surprisingly, they are slowly climbing down the ladder towards SMB's (small to medium businsses) as well with their tools. It would not suprise me in the least if, eventually, they did end up as an ISP but achieve it in reverse of the standard model. Much the way CompuServe did, way back when before AOL bought and essentially gutted it.

Yet one more thought has to do with their API forming the basis for Foundstone's SiteDigger 2.0 which aids enterprises in identifying leaked corporate sensitive data, configuration mistakes, system vulnerabilties, etc. Again network intensive.

Do remember everything to date that Google has done has been leveraged from their search technology. Even GMail, despite the any first thoughts, leverages their search capability (only one copy of any mail is stored, you really didn't think you had a gigabyte, did you?). An interesting approach and I wish them well. The day someone puts a stake in the heart of AOhelL is the day I celebrate.