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Google Takes A Stab At Becoming A Utlity
- Kansas City Star, Monday, December 12, 2011 11:27 AM
As Kansas City gets ready to gain faster Web surfing Internet speeds, complements of Google, Scott Canon tells us residents and business owners are not completely convinced it will work to their benefit. He writes that "the faster the Internet -- even measured in fragments of a second -- the more time people spend online," which means that Google could sell and serve up more ads. Apparently, the Google plan includes climbing power poles and snaking cable through the ground. Along with the skepticism, Canon provides some background on Google's road to Kansas City, chronicling the years since 1995, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin created BackRub, the search engine that became Google.
