Robert Cringely says Google is on its way to become the biggest CDN ever. It controls more network fiber than any other company in the world - and it’s building two huge data centers in South Carolina alone. Google’s enormous capacity, coupled with end users’ increasingly voracious appetite for all things web-based, will lead to a future in which Google will act as a giant proxy server for the Internet. It will be “our phone company, our cable company, our stereo system and our digital video recorder"…

Greg Linden disagrees. He thinks that instead of cornering the market on bandwidth, Google is trying to build a world of infinite storage and CPU power. Well, *and* bandwidth.

No web hosting provider will have access to Google’s economy of scale. Or out-of-this-world local government incentives. (Unless you’re a state-licensed operator in China, but that’s a different story.) Sorry, there isn’t and won’t be any way around this. BUT one resource that Google won’t be dishing out in buckets is… knowledge. continue… ->