Google just announced that they are going to run fiber optic cables to people's homes and offer internet service. The plan is 1 gigabits per second internet, which is much faster than what most internet providers can offer. For examples, most high speed internet connections range from 1.5 megabits per sercond to 15 megabits per second. Even Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-Verse, which both deliver cable TV over the internet, isn't that fast. Neither is the city of Wilson's Greenlight internet. Google's internet is 1 gigabit, or 1000 megabits, per second.

Is this a good idea? In my opinion, no. First, those who do everything do nothing well. Google is branching out too far from its roots, and as result they cannot focus. I still use Google for my search because I can always find what I need faster on Google. Which is related to me my second objection: Google isn't doing this to help America. The official blog post may sound like they are, but Google is a for-profit company. And Google profits off data-mining, which tracking what people do on the internet. Do you really want to give a company whose main source of income is data mining control on how you access the internet? I don't. You would be naive to think Google will not find some way to monitor the behavoir of the people who use their service and sell it to advertisers. I would rather have a slower internet than a monitored internet.