Is Google trying to avert crisis through enhancing Internet speed?

Is Google too in a fix? Well, this scribe is not sure of any such eventuality but seeing the hurriedness of Google Inc. or its vigor to increase speed of Internet connections in the realm of U.S., this question comes to the brain only. So let’s put the question straightly. Is everything fine for Google? If we look at its revenues, there can’t be any reason to get skeptical but there is also an aphorism – It’s only the wearer knows where the shoes pinches. Has Google worn such a shoe? Or are the coming days getting tough for Google? Perhaps the second question is more relevant.

Maybe you have gone through this issue already. If not, let me say again. The globally acclaimed search giant is prepared to take a provisional step toward fixing one of its longest-held gripes: the speed of Internet connections in the U.S. Whatever may be the formal announcement, it seems Google Inc. is leaving no stone unturned to do the same.

The issue that was in air for some months got strengthened when in the blog post on Feb. 10, Google product managers Minnie Ingersoll and James Kelly presented the company's plan to render as many as 500,000 people in a small number of venues with fiber-optic Internet connections capable of one gigabit per second (Gbps). This is in excess of 100 times faster than the typical U.S. broadband connection speed these days. The project is not only too buoyant but exceedingly expensive also and if we rely on analysts, costs could run north of $1 billion to install and maintain the new network.

How do you find the same? You may concur that Google Inc. can do anything but there must be some specific reason behind such a desperate approach. Isn’t it?

Read this recent annunciation of Google Inc. "We want to see what developers and users can do with ultra-high speeds, whether it's creating new bandwidth-intensive 'killer apps' and services, or other uses we can't yet imagine." Do you find any agony or an aggression? Offence is surely the best defence; without doubt Google is playing the same strategy.