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Google the service provider

by Garrett Smith

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I don’t know what Google has planned, but they’ve got something brewing in the communications space.

First Google acquired Grandcentral (now Google Voice). Then they acquired Gizmo Project.

Now they’ve announced the acquisition of voice and video processing technology company GIPS for a shade over $68 million.

This gives Google a:

  • virtual number offering
  • “unified messaging” client
  • back-end engine’s to handle high amounts of voice/video processing

If that doesn’t sound like the starting blocks to a next generation communications provider, I don’t know what does.

Now all they need to do is add Bandwidth.

         

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Google Will One Day Replace The Human Brain

by Garrett Smith

Google is evil.

Not evil how others see Google, but evil in that they are building the most advanced artificial intelligence structure ever known under the guise of the pursuit of a better Internet search. After reading Marissa Meyer’s piece on the future of search, a response to her recent misquote that is rich in artificial intelligence references (anything from voice context interpretation to “wearable” devices), I am left with an eerie feeling that as Google continues on it’s upon unabated path it will play a pivotal role in the creation of an artificial race and or replacing our current human OS with one far superior to the one we are currently using. [click to continue…]

         

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Google as an Internet/VoIP Service Provider?

by Garrett Smith

This does not have much to with VoIP (post specific, not to the topic), but I read this interesting article by Brian White a few days ago and got to thinking that with all of the hub-ub about ‘Net Neutrality’ and ISP’s wanting to charge content providers for “higher levels of service” and giving non-paying content providers a lower level of service that the idea of Google as an Internet/VoIP service provider is not that far fetched.

If Google, or any content provider for that matter, thought that this legislation had a good chance of passing it would be in their best interest to consider becoming an ISP. A simple (well not so simple) cost analysis of becoming an Internet Service Provider, revenue growth possibilities, and considerations of the pros/cons of doing so weighed against the cost of additional fees should the bill pass might, for a site that recieves the third most traffic on the Internet, prove that to be a great move. Considering many of Google’s moves in the service realm through GoogleTalk and GoogleFi, it makes me think that sooner or later Google as the Internet (thanks Business 2.0) truly is a possibilty.

What do you think?

         

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