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techliberation.com - 12/5/2008

Google Bandwidth Study Proves Very Little

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Precursor LLC released a study that claims to have calculated Google’s total bandwidth use declaring “ Google uses 21 times more bandwidth than it pays for .” The study is an attempt to foil Google’s pursuit of Net Neutrality as a federal policy by claiming that ...

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internetnews.com - 12/6/2008

News for Developers of Internet and Corporate Applications

— internetnews.com — Does Google Have a Secret OS? By Andy Patrizio December 4, 2008 Net Applications caused a bit of a stir this week with a report that showed Microsoft's operating system share had dipped below 90 percent. This played very well where anti-Microsoft ... (more) News for Developers of Internet and Corporate Applications

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googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com - 12/4/2008

Response to phone companies' "Google bandwidth" report

— googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com — Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 3:28 PM Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Earlier this week I thought that the announcement of a broadband access "call to action" was an encouraging sign that the phone and cable carriers ... (more) Response to phone companies' "Google bandwidth" report

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boygeniusreport.com - 12/8/2008

Google working on a new mystery OS?

— boygeniusreport.com — After dropping a pretty big bomb recently with news that Microsoft’s OS market share has dropped below 90% for the first time in 15 years, Net Applications is at it again. The well known market research firm is now causing a wave of ... (more) Google working on a new mystery OS?

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Is Google Really Using 21x The Bandwidth It Pays For?
Techdirt — ... of the internet, and you should have to pay a second time to actually reach any endpoint or other user. So, even though consumers pay for the bandwidth they use to reach Google, Cleland appears to calculate that as being Google's responsibility, ignoring that consumers are paying plenty for the right to reach Google (and the rest of the internet). As Cord Blomquist points out, this is like pointing out that Best Buy should pay for the gas it takes for people to drive to Best Buy. Broadband Reports also does a ...

The impossibility of rational debate
mathewingram.com/work — ... There are so many errors of logic, fact and simple intelligence in the Precursor release that it boggles the mind. First of all, Google may account for a lot of Internet usage, and what the company pays for bandwidth may be a small fraction of what Americans pay for their flat-rate Internet accounts. So what? The two have very little to do with each other. Is Google supposed to pay more because I use Google image search a lot? As Tech Liberation Front points out, the Internet is paid for by all participants — me with my Internet account, Google with its bandwidth ...