Money Secrets

Ok, I don’t often read the Wall Street Journal. Not really that much in there to interest me, or many of my readers.

But I confess to being more than a little intrigued by an article in their ‘tech’ section today.

Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web

It seems that those who are willing and able (and Google surely falls into both of those categories) to pay the bucks, may soon be able to ‘fast track‘ their content on the Internet. Great if you’re a big corporation and can afford to pay for such preferential treatment, great if you’re a customer of such a company.

But what about the little guys? When you can’t afford to pay to access the Internet’s ‘fast lanes’ and your customers can’t be bothered to wait for your content to reach them, where do you think they’re going to go?

I’ve never taken too much interest in such ‘technical’ workings of the Internet. As you all know, I don’t do ‘tech’ at all.

However, despite being posted in the tech section of the Wall Stree journal, this article strikes me as more about fair play than it does about technology. While big guns are using up the fast lanes, those left will be competing in an ever increasingly choked slow lane.

Check it out here and let me know what you think.

Susan