I have been trying to figure out where i stand on this Google WiFi thing. One one side we have a company that can help make WiFi access as widespread as McDonald’s. On the other we have the same company channeling and cataloging all of this information through it’s own servers.

I want access from anywhere/anytime. The Price? I have to give up some privacy.

Check out this article by Seth Jayson over at the Motley Fool. He does a great job of summing the issue up.

Google is (right now) an advertising company. That is where their revenue comes from. Google Desktop, GoogleTalk, GMail, and now the WiFi are all means of collecting more specific information about you, me, everyone so that marketing and advertising can be more targeted. Brilliant Plan. But I don’t like it because I don’t want to be targeted. I don’t want “better” advertising designed to circumvent my willpower to get me to buy. What Google is doing is brilliant…..for them. What they are doing is not so nice for consumers.

 

Cheers!