A Superhighway of One's Own

August 26, 2005

Earlier this year, Business 2.0 writer Om Malik noticed that Google was buying up surplus fiber optic cable all over the country. It got him to wondering what Google was up to, and whether the company may be quietly building a parallel Internet of its very own. Malik tells Bob about the vast competitive advantages that the creation of a "GoogleNet" would make possible for Google.


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