Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web

online.wsj.com - 12/15/2008

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VISHESH KUMAR and CHRISTOPHER RHOADS The celebrated openness of the Internet -- network providers are not supposed to give preferential treatment to any traffic -- is quietly losing powerful defenders. Google Inc. has approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet traffic with a ...

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Google Wants to Install Servers at ISPs, Not So Sure About That 'Net Neutrality' Thing After All [Not Being Evil]
Gizmodo — ... The Wall Street Journal reports that Google has has approached ISPs with a plan to install its servers within their networks, providing a "fast lane" for the famous supporters of net neutrality. ...

WSJ Accuses Google of Abandoning Net Neutrality: Reality Check
Today @ PC World — ... , were abandoning or softening their views on Net neutrality . The Wall Street Journal specifically attacks Google's OpenEdge project as a means by which Google can have its own content given bandwidth priority over other web sites. Before we go into a terrified panic that Google is abandoning ...

Is Google Really Ditching Net Neutrality?
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech — ... of the concept of net neutrality. Thus, a story on the Wall Street Journal’s website, destined for the Monday edition, caught my eye. Titled “ Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web ,” it states that Google is looking to make deals with broadband providers to get faster access for its own content. At the same time, Google responded with a ...

Google on Net neutrality and benefits of caching
D' Technology Weblog — ... Richard clarify WSJs published story saying that leading proponents of net neutrality have been softening on their positions: “Despite the hyperbolic tone and confused claims in Monday’s Journal story, I want to be perfectly clear about one thing: Google remains strongly committed to the principle of net neutrality, and we will continue to work with policymakers in the years ahead to keep the Internet free and open.” ...