Free Wi-Fi? Get Ready for GoogleNet

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Free Wi-Fi? Get Ready for GoogleNet

By Om Malik
September 1, 2005 *(Old Article - but could Google get it right?)

(Business 2.0) – What if Google wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable of targeting advertising to a user's precise location? The gatekeeper of the world's information could become one of the globe's biggest Internet providers and one of its most powerful ad sellers, basically supplanting telecoms in one fell swoop. Sounds crazy, but how might Google go about it?
 
http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/28/technology/business2_browser0328/index.htm?cnn=yes

March 28, 2006: 11:43 AM EST

Google patents free Wi-Fi
The search-engine giant has developed three technologies for offering wireless Internet access, and advertising, free of charge.

SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - More evidence has emerged that Google is getting ready to blanket the U.S. with free Wi-Fi, as Business 2.0 senior writer Om Malik reported last year. Now, the company has filed for three patents related to offering wireless Internet access. Search Engine Roundtable points out that the patents all have to do with serving up advertising through a wireless Internet connection maintained by a third party, whose brand Google would include in the presentation of those ads. ...
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er Google, how about testing the free wi-fi service in SA. You will find us to be a captive audience and we do not expect too much, seeing what we put up with presently.
 
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