Clinging To GoogleNet

Google says I'm wrong. Robert X. Cringely says it, too. Even Murdok' David Utter disagrees. Okay, maybe so. But as cognitive dissonance has its way with me, I'm stickin' to my guns and siding with Om Malik's original assertion that we haven't heard the last of GoogleNet. After all, if our favorite search engine has the means and the motivation, why wouldn't it set up an ad-supported nationwide wireless network? I asked Google that very question. From the email I sent them: "So I was checking out GoogleWiFiAPossibility WhoIsDataDocketIncAndWhyDoesGoogleLoveThem? So anyway, what's Google really doing with all that money and capability? Any comment would be greatly appreciated before I express my doubts online." Of course, as many know who cover the industry, any response at all from Google is a good thing, even if it's a short one-like the one I got. "Hi Jason- Our Wifi plans are limited to the Bay area at this time - specifically Mountain View and San Francisco. Thanks for your inquiry, Megan Quinn Google Inc." The conspiracy theorist may overanalyze that sentence, seeing as information is limited and all of us pant at Pavlov's door awaiting any morsel-and this reporter really wants to overanalyze. The telling phrase, for the over-analytical, is "at this time." And I'm running with it. From the So the buzz begins about GoogleNet. It is possible, definitely doable, and providing the masses with a free medium by which Google could locally target advertising seems a brilliant and relatively cheap move. Some reports said it could be done for as little as $100 million in as little as 3 months. Why wouldn't they? From the