Comments on: Google Battles ISPs With Technology

By: Transparency Is Good But Intelligence Is Better – GigaOM

Transparency Is Good But Intelligence Is Better – GigaOM — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:04:55 +0000

[...] the home. So maybe YouTube isn’t going to start offering this (although Google does have some nice tools for getting more insights into your ISP’s network management), but I think as getting business information and services via the web thanks to the movement to [...]

By: Glasnost: Test if your ISP is manipulating BitTorrent traffic | Wyrdpress

Glasnost: Test if your ISP is manipulating BitTorrent traffic | Wyrdpress — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:48:14 +0000

[...] Google Battles ISPs With Technology (gigaom.com) [...]

By: Google & The Big Ideas « Andrew Royer

Google & The Big Ideas « Andrew Royer — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:03:31 +0000

[...] * Google’s research into deep web/dark web. * Gmail’s offline availability. * Google tool to measure broadband, especially useful now that more and more broadband providers are looking to shift to a metered [...]

By: Google & The Big Ideas

Google & The Big Ideas — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:56:19 +0000

[...] * Google’s research into deep web/dark web. * Gmail’s Offline availability. * Google tool to measure broadband especially useful now that more and more broadband providers looking to shift to metered broadband [...]

By: Brett Glass

Brett Glass — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:32:45 +0000

The Google “tools” aren’t “measurement tools;” they’re propaganda tools. Designed to find fault with ISPs’ service even when there’s nothing actually wrong, they under-report bandwidth (we got a measurement of 92 Kbps on a wide open 3 Mbps line), hang, crash, and report vital network management techniques as problems. But of course, Google doesn’t care about this. The purpose of the software is to cast aspersions upon ISPs so as to reinforce Google’s corporate drive to regulate the Internet.

By: Vid-Biz: Disney, Google, Yahoo « NewTeeVee

Vid-Biz: Disney, Google, Yahoo « NewTeeVee — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:30:06 +0000

[...] Google Creates Measurement Labs; server platform and tools will measure broadband speeds and determine whether ISP is blocking BitTorrent traffic. (GigaOM) [...]

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:34:41 +0000

@Rob. I love it.

By: T-Home

T-Home — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:21:49 +0000

It is another wonderful service from Google. These tools can help users find out how good their connection and help keep ISPs more reasonable in their network.

By: IT Management » Blog Archive » Wednesday Links: Google Takes on ISPs, Security Markets

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:01:46 +0000

[...] Google is going head to head with ISPs with their latest from Labs — tools to evaluate ISP speeds, how traffic is being handled and more. Read about it on Gigaom. [...]

By: Rob Adler

Rob Adler — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:03:05 +0000

Fortunately for Google, they did not choose “Don’t be Machiavellian” as a slogan.

By: Quli

Quli — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:20:26 +0000

Unfortunate that existing players in this vertical havent jumped into such niches. http://www.speedtest.net and a bunch of others already allow users to assess their ISP’s speed (and also gives stats on ISP’s in the region etc), but other than a brute force upload/download, they havent been innovative enough – one more area where Google will the pack leader

By: Alex Wilhelm

Alex Wilhelm — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:17:37 +0000

I love this. Now not a single ISP can lie about their activities. Hate or love Google for the way it handles data/privacy, the light it brings to dark corners is beyond useful.
Another great Google service that will not generate revenue (although it may protect it, as Stacey pointed out), but will provide an important tool to consumers.