Interesting post from Cnet about a possible Google next step.
IT industry evolution is today connected with big corps. like Google and this kind of decisions can modify existent assets:
"Google is thought to be a shrewd judge of computing value, having built its widely-admired infrastructure on the back of low-budget server clusters.
At the same time, curious geeks have long pondered the apparent
mismatch between its service demands and the reputed scale of its
computing resources."