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Unannounced announcements from Google
« on: May 23, 2008, 06:20:09 PM »

Google - The search engine that has still yet to sell out and have tons of ads and other useless crap on their homepage - is one of the masters of invention and innovation. Google is probably one of the only companies that is able to reinvent the wheel and have it be successful. They are known for their ability to offer a new service to public users every half a year or so. From the world famous Google Image Search (GIS for short) to Google Earth which attempts to photograph the entire planet (Including the inside of your house) they have certainly come up with some of the most unique ways of manipulating data over the years.

What you don't know, however, is the hidden agenda of Google. Information from the Googleplex has leaked regarding some of their upcoming services that they plan on offering to the public. We here at The Geekery were able to obtain a copy from an anonymous reader who doesn't wish to be identified in an effort to stay alive. We however, aren't afraid. But in an effort to stay somewhat under the radar, we will not be publishing this 209 page PDF file. Instead we will simply post up some of the juicy details of their upcoming products and services.

Google Food
Google Food will attempt to archive and share all different types of food found throughout the world. From Hot Pockets to fried calamari, Google Food will be able to instantly send you hot and fresh food upon request. Google proposes to invest $1.87 billion into researching and developing what they call "food printers" which will "print" finished food products by using special ink cartridges called "flavor cartridges" that only need to be replaced once a year for quality and food safety purposes - regardless of the amount of use the cartridge has performed.

Google plans on doubling revenues with the addition of this product since they will hold the patens necessary to produce the food printers. Any company, such as HP, that wishes to produce food printers will have to pay Google some form of royalty fee. Additionally, Google hopes to put fast food giant McDonald's out of business for good by allowing urban professionals the ability to bring lunch to the office without actually packing it.

This invention, if it becomes a reality, will change the way we live our lives much like the internet has changed the way we do business. Soccer moms who once were hard pressed for time and insisted on feeding their children utter trash from fast food restaurants will realize that this will save them time and money - both are a scarce in this day and age.

Google Gas
Just the name of this service is catchy - the utilization of alliteration helps to promote brand awareness since people are able to easily remember the name.

Google Gas will attempt to do several things for consumers. It will attempt to gather and index all fuel prices in the United States according to location (Town / ZIP code) and upload them in real time to your handheld device or GPS in an effort to save you money while on the road by telling you where the busy buy is in relation to where you are. Additionally, the developers of the Google Gas service have plans on developing a 100% synthetic and a 100% renewable fuel that has the same properties of gasoline. Though in the early stages of development, the document outlined how the process of making the new fuel will some how utilize the heat generated by the 20,000+ servers that Google currently operates.

This project will probably be kept under wraps for quite some time given the amount of money riding on an alternative to gasoline. World domination will truly be theirs if they are successful in finding a replacement without making any modification to the current gasoline deployment system already in place.

Google TV
Though not as complex as some of their other upcoming inventions, Google TV isn't very much different than most major cable providers. Google plans on allowing small businesses to advertise their products and services on a national level rather than the local level that only reaches several thousand viewers at a time. This advertising will be up to 50% more effective according to speculation since commercials will utilize a similar system to their AdWords service: Advertisers will set a maximum that they are willing to pay, and publishers will have air time that they are willing to sell. Whoever has the highest bid for the spot wins and their ad is aired. Most importantly, the ads will be targeted to viewers who are likely to be interested in the products that are being advertised.

Google Security Identification (GSI)
Similar to a social security number offered at birth by the United States Government, a GSI will be issued to all of those who wish to use the internet. In order to get online, users will have to authenticate with their system using their GSI along with several other randomly selected personal questions that only the user would know the answer to. Google hopes that this security will lessen the chances of identity theft, as well as lessen the amount of spam that is transmitted over the internet.

Google itself admitted in the document that the GSI system most likely will not take off given the United States Government will have to over-see its operation given it would restrict access to a service that is currently governed ('sorta' they said in the document) by the FCC.

GoogleCities
From the sound of it, this service is specifically designed to compete with Geocities offered by Google's enemy Yahoo!. Google plans on launching this service within the next year and will hopefully lure clients away from Geocities by offering up an impressive amount of free web space and an unlimited amount of transfer per month so as long as the content being transferred is in agreement with their TOS.

Google plans on sharing the user's web space with their Gmail account's quota. Most users enjoy around six or seven gigs of free web mail space from Gmail. This same space will then be shared with their GoogleCities account. Users who need more than their allotted free quota are welcome to purchase more for the price of $3.25 per gig.

Users who opt to use this service from Google will be pleased to know that their website will be automatically spidered by the Google crawlers daily since indexing will take a fraction of the time since the content is already on the Google network. This certainly will change the way things are in the hosting industry as well in the super saturated SEO industry.
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