I'm surprised that I wasn't able to find the word privacy mentioned in the first page.
I think that Google is clearly losing the "don't be evil" credo, whatever you may think about a specific industry.
Google is trying to do everything, Google is not satisfied with ads and is trying to remove the middlemen, all the possible ones.
They tried to attack the fashion ecommerce niche with Google Boutiques, they tried to attack Groupon with Google Offers, now they become an Internet Provider, but why? Here are my two cents:
-they will be able to know everything, and I mean everything, their users do online, and they are one of the few organizations actually able to parse and exploit this size of data
-they will be able to know the identity of their users
-they may be able to control the speed or stability of the connection to specific sites, they may even hijack specific banner ads without anyone noticing
I think that Google is clearly losing the "don't be evil" credo, whatever you may think about a specific industry.
Google is trying to do everything, Google is not satisfied with ads and is trying to remove the middlemen, all the possible ones.
They tried to attack the fashion ecommerce niche with Google Boutiques, they tried to attack Groupon with Google Offers, now they become an Internet Provider, but why? Here are my two cents:
-they will be able to know everything, and I mean everything, their users do online, and they are one of the few organizations actually able to parse and exploit this size of data -they will be able to know the identity of their users -they may be able to control the speed or stability of the connection to specific sites, they may even hijack specific banner ads without anyone noticing