Saturday, September 22, 2007

Has Google Plans to Lay a Pacific Cable? - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

Timely reality check 

Google may be the ultimate do-it-yourself company. From the start, Google’s sense of its own engineering superiority, combined with a tightwad sensibility, led it to build its own servers. It writes its own operating systems.

It is now threatening to buy wireless carrier spectrum and it is getting ready to hire ships that will lay a data communications cable across the Pacific, according to a report from Communications Day, an Australian trade news service.

Has Google Plans to Lay a Pacific Cable? - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

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