YouTube Speed Dashboard it’s Google’s latest attempt to take over the world. It’s basically a panel that shows you your Internet connection speed and the one of those around you.
At the time it is just informative, and its only purpose is to show you the real speed with which you watch YouTube videos.
This isn’t a new tool around the web, but it is worth mentioning the fact that it has been released by Google, which indicates that it is part of the company’s efforts to make the Internet a faster net. Considering its new project: Google Fiber for Communities, that’s basically Google’s incursion into Internet providers business, with the highlight that their network is supposed to be ultra-fast.
For those wondering why is Google suddenly so obsessed with speed? Well, the answer is simple: Google’s vision of the future (and present), it’s cloud computing, and it has directed all its efforts (like Chrome O.S. or the SPDY protocol) towards a web that concentrates everyone’s computer information; but to succeed, the data transfer speed must be a lot faster.
Given that Google is the main data and information manager in the web, one doesn’t have to be a genius to connect the dots…
Via [mashable]
