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A Guide to Net Neutrality for Google Users "Net neutrality" is an issue that will shape the future of the Internet. Google has created this guide to net neutrality, which includes a brief overview of the subject, an update on where things stand in the U.S. policy debate, a set of actions you can ...
Net neutrality and the benefits of caching
googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com — Monday, December 15, 2008 at 12:14 AM Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel One... of the first posts I wrote for this blog last summer tried to define what we at Google mean when we talk about the concept of net neutrality. ... (more) Net neutrality and the benefits of caching
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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 — ... On the issue of net neutrality, the project, tellingly called "OpenEdge", seems to indicate an about-face on Google's part. According to an extant Google Help page, the company's official position is as follows: ...

WSJ Accuses Google of Abandoning Net Neutrality: Reality Check
Today @ PC World — ... . 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 Net neutrality for its own nefarious purposes, how about we look at what OpenEdge actually does. OpenEdge is a means for ISPs to cache frequently accessed websites so that those websites do not need to use more bandwidth to be loaded over and over again. On ...

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