India telah tampil dengan laptop termurah di dunia, sebuah perangkat komputer layar sentuh berharga 35 dollar AS atau sekitar Rp 335.000.

Menteri Pembangunan Sumber Daya Manusia India Kapil Sibal, pekan ini, mengungkapkan, perangkat komputer dengan harga murah itu dirancang buat siswa. Ia pun mengatakan, departemennya telah memulai pembicaraan dengan pemilik pabrik global untuk memulai produksi massal. “Kami telah mencapai tahap (pengembangan) yang hari ini, motherboard, cip, prosesor, konektivitasnya, semuanya secara kumulatif berharga sekitar 35 dollar AS, termasuk memori, layar, semuanya,” kata Sibal dalam sebuah pidato.

Ia mengatakan, perangkat layar sentuh tersebut dilengkapi dengan browser internet, program pembaca file PDF, dan fasilitas konferensi video, tetapi perangkat kerasnya diciptakan dengan keluwesan yang memadai untuk menggabungkan semua komponen baru sesuai dengan keperluan pemakainya.

Sibal mengatakan, perangkat komputer dengan sistem operasi berdasarkan Linux ini diperkirakan akan diperkenalkan bagi lembaga pendidikan tinggi mulai tahun 2011, tetapi tujuannya ialah menurunkan harga lebih lanjut menjadi 20 dollar AS dan akhirnya jadi 10 dollar AS.

Perangkat itu dikembangkan oleh tim peneliti di lembaga teknologi utama di India, Indian Institute of Technology dan Indian Institute of Science. India menghabiskan sebanyak 3 persen anggaran tahunannya pada pendidikan sekolah dan telah meningkatkan angka melek hurufnya hingga mencakup 64 persen dari 1,2 miliar warganya.

Akan tetapi, berbagai studi telah memperlihatkan banyak siswa nyaris tak dapat membaca atau menulis dan kebanyakan sekolah pemerintah tak memiliki fasilitas yang memadai.

Windows Software:

FileZilla – FTP/SFTP

FTP/SFTP (File Transfer Protocol & Secure File Transfer Protocol). FTP is a must for any serious Website administrator. FTP is what you use to download and upload Web pages, images, robots.txt files and anything else you wish to upload to your Website.

DataFreeway – FTP/SFTP

FTP/SFTP (File Transfer Protocol & Secure File Transfer Protocol). FTP is a must for any serious Website administrator. FTP is what you use to download and upload Web pages, images, robots.txt files and anything else you wish to upload to your Website.

Core FTP LE – FTP/SFTP

FTP/SFTP (File Transfer Protocol & Secure File Transfer Protocol). FTP is a must for any serious Website administrator. FTP is what you use to download and upload Web pages, images, robots.txt files and anything else you wish to upload to your Website.

Komodo – HTML & Programmer’s Editor

HTML & Programmer’s Editor. You can edit your Web pages without an HTML editor. In our opinion this is the best free programmer’s editor out there. Komodo is a complete programmer’s editor for Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl; plus support for browser-side code including JavaScript, CSS, HTML and XML.

NVU – HTML Editor

HTML Editor. You can edit your Web pages without an HTML editor. NVU is a visual tool for making websites (WYSIWYG html editor), comparable to Dreamweaver.

NoteTab – HTML & Text Editor

HTML & Text Editor. You can edit your Web pages without an HTML editor. Notepad replacement and a handy HTML editor. Handle a heap of files with a simple tabbed interface. Search files, strip HTML tags and format text quickly.

GIMPShop – Graphics, Photo, Publishing

Graphics, Photo, Publishing. Graphics is an important visual aid to your visitors. GIMPShop rivals Photoshop in many features.

MAC Software:

FileZilla – FTP/SFTP

FTP/SFTP (File Transfer Protocol & Secure File Transfer Protocol). FTP is a must for any serious Website administrator. FTP is what you use to download and upload Web pages, images, robots.txt files and anything else you wish to upload to your Website.

Cyberduck – FTP/SFTP

FTP/SFTP (File Transfer Protocol & Secure File Transfer Protocol). FTP is a must for any serious Website administrator. FTP is what you use to download and upload Web pages, images, robots.txt files and anything else you wish to upload to your Website.

Komodo – HTML & Programmer’s Editor

HTML & Programmer’s Editor. You can edit your Web pages without an HTML editor. In our opinion this is the best free programmer’s editor out there. Komodo is a complete programmer’s editor for Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl; plus support for browser-side code including JavaScript, CSS, HTML and XML.

NVU – HTML Editor

HTML Editor. You can edit your Web pages without an HTML editor. NVU is a visual tool for making websites (WYSIWYG html editor), comparable to Dreamweaver.

Smultron – HTML Editor

HTML Editor. You can edit your Web pages without an HTML editor. This editor works nicely with Cyberduck.

Gimp.app – Graphics, Photo, Publishing

Graphics, Photo, Publishing. Graphics is an important visual aid to your visitors. Gimp.app rivals Photoshop in many features (requires that either Apple’s X11 or XDarwin be installed).

Seashore – Graphics, Photo, Publishing

Graphics, Photo, Publishing. Graphics is an important visual aid to your visitors. Seashore is based on Gimp, but doesn’t require X11.

Linux Software:

FileZilla – FTP/SFTP

FTP/SFTP (File Transfer Protocol & Secure File Transfer Protocol). FTP is a must for any serious Website administrator. FTP is what you use to download and upload Web pages, images, robots.txt files and anything else you wish to upload to your Website.

GFTP – FTP/SFTP

FTP/SFTP (File Transfer Protocol & Secure File Transfer Protocol). FTP is a must for any serious Website administrator. FTP is what you use to download and upload Web pages, images, robots.txt files and anything else you wish to upload to your Website.

Komodo – HTML & Programmer’s Editor

HTML & Programmer’s Editor. You can edit your Web pages without an HTML editor. In our opinion this is the best free programmer’s editor out there. Komodo is a complete programmer’s editor for Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl; plus support for browser-side code including JavaScript, CSS, HTML and XML.

NVU – HTML Editor

HTML Editor. You can edit your Web pages without an HTML editor. NVU is a visual tool for making websites (WYSIWYG html editor), comparable to Dreamweaver.

GIMP – Graphics, Photo, Publishing

Graphics, Photo, Publishing. Graphics is an important visual aid to your visitors. GIMP rivals Photoshop in many features.

Ajak teman-teman dan rekan Anda untuk membantu krisis kemanusiaan di Palestina. Dukung program ini dengan menempatkan link http://ceriagames.com/support_palestine di website, blog, forum, chat, e-mail, situs jejaring sosial yang Anda miliki, dan sebagainya. Hingga saat ini telah terkumpul dana sebesar Rp. 41.306.500 dari total 281.420 IP yang telah melihat halaman ini.

Banner :

Jika kita memiliki PR yang bagus dan backlink yang banyak, maka sangat cocok jika kita ikut program semacam paid reviews. Saya sungguh menyesal tidak menerapkan cara ini sejak dulu. Lebih baik terlambat daripada tidak sama sekali. Karna saya ingin memoneytizekan blog ini ke program paid reviews.

Caranya sangatlah gampang, anda hanya tinggal copy link yang berada di bawah ini dengan syarat anda harus menghapus link pada peringkat 1 dari daftar, lalu pindahkan yang tadinya nomor 2 menjadi nomor 1, nomor 3 menjadi nomor 2, nomor 4 menjadi nomor 3, dst. Kemudian masukan link blog anda sendiri pada urutan paling bawah ( nomor 10). Dan silahkan ajak teman anda untuk mengikuti cara ini serta sebarkan cara ini ke sebanyak-banyaknya teman anda.

1. Wii World
2. Lowongan Kerja IT
3. ilmu-kompi
4. alfacroon
5. Trik-Gue
6. Pabrik Info
7. WordPress Paper’s
8. bootingskoBlog
9. Rajwa Info
10. Situs Murah
11. Comot Sana Sini

Keterangan:

Jika anda mampu mengajak lima orang saja untuk mengcopy artikel ini, maka jumlah backlink yang akan didapat adalah:

* Posisi 10, jumlah backlink = 1
* Posisi 9, jumlah backlink = 5
* Posisi 8, jumlah backlink = 25
* Posisi 7, jumlah backlink = 125
* Posisi 6, jumlah backlink = 625
* Posisi 5, jumlah backlink = 3,125
* Posisi 4, jumlah backlink =15,625
* Posisi 3, jumlah backlink = 78,125
* Posisi 2, jumlah backlink = 390,625
* Posisi 1, jumlah backlink = 1,953,125

Dan nama dari alamat blog dapat dimasukan kata kunci yang anda inginkan yang juga dapat menarik perhatian untuk segera diklik. Dari sisi SEO anda sudah mendapatkan 1,953,125 backlink dan efek sampingnya jika pengunjung downline mengklik link anda maka anda juga mendapat traffic tambahan.

Saya sarankan anda mencoba cara ini dan silakan copy sebarkan artikel ini ke teman-teman anda. Hilangkan link nomor 1 dan masukan alamat blog anda pada nomor 10. Buktikan sendiri hasilnya setelah itu baru kementar.

Peringatan:

Artikel ini harus permanen selamanya di blog anda, dan Anda harus Jujur dalam menaruh Link Blogger yang telah lebih dulu ada, serta Anda pun tidak boleh menghapus Artikel ini dari Blog Anda…

Berani Mencoba??? Silahkan Copy – Paste Artikel ini, dan selamat merasakan sensasi nya diBlog Anda….

• bring potential customers to your site when they click on the link
• increase the number of visitors to your web site
• dramatically improve your search engine rankings

Even though there are software packages on the market that help automate the linking process, use them sparingly, if at all. The only way to succeed in linking strategies is (aside from creating useful content that will encourage inbound links) by manually creating the link

Here are the 10 most important inbound links you must have to your site:

1. Directory Links

Directories are indexes of online sites, typically organized by category. Links back to your site from directories like Yahoo Directory and DMOZ.org are very valuable. DMOZ.org is edited by human editors, and while it’s free, it may take awhile for your site to be listed. Getting listed in Yahoo’s Directory costs $299/year.

2. Press Releases

If you’re writing press releases, make sure they are optimized for keywords that someone would use to find a business like yours and include links back to your site, as well. Once written, you can have your press release distributed through a service like PRWeb.com, which will create links from high traffic news sites back to your site.

3. Article Directories

Writing and distributing articles through high traffic article directories, like EzineArticles. com, is a great way to get valuable inbound links from a high traffic site. By crafting an effective resource box at the close of your article, you can drive traffic back to your site!

4. Social Bookmarking

Similar to web browser bookmarks, social bookmarking sites store individual pages (bookmarks) online and allows users to tag (with keywords), organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources as well as share them with others. If you bookmark your own content on these sites (like Digg.com, Reddit.com, Del.icio.us. com), you get a link from the service. By producing content that your readers love and then bookmark to their friends, the link increases in SEO value.

5. Blog Comments

To find blog posts on which to comment, you can use blog-specific search engines like Google Blog Search. Make sure these are blogs read by your target market, not your colleagues. Brand yourself by always using the same name and remember to link back to your site. Always leave a comment that adds to the conversation that’s happening within the comments.

6. Social Media

Now, Google also indexes your Twitter updates and your social networking profiles. Add that to Web 2.0 hubsites like Scribd or HubPage and you’ve got the option of creating many, many inbound links in a very short period of time.

7. Blog/Podcast Syndication

Submitting the RSS feed of your blog and podcast to syndication services will give you a link back to your site. In some cases, each time you publish a new blog post, the post itself will also get a link.

8. Video Syndication

YouTube is one of the most visited sites online, and the number of sites that syndicate videos is growing each day. These sites often allow you to link to your site either in your video’s description or on your profile page, or both.

9. .EDU and .GOV Links

Search engines place a great deal of credibility in government and education web sites, and the links carry a great deal of weight. Frankly, it isn’t easy to get inbound links from these sites.

10. Internal Links

Remember, if you have more than one web site, or a web site and a blog, be sure and link one to the other. You can do this by linking one article to other related articles, or link to categories or archives of information.

Creating a sound inbound linking strategy is a key component of your search engine optimization efforts. Try a few of the strategies listed above and see how your traffic and rankings increase.

author :Coach Donna Gunter

Jika dijabarkan secara keseluruhan, maka tidak akan ada habisnya, karena hingga saat ini ada ratusan kategori bisnis online yang diikuti oleh ribuan program. Namun kali ini saya akan coba menjabarkan beberapa peluang bisnis online yang saya ketahui dan sangat memungkinkan menambah pundi-pundi kekayaan anda. Beberapa diantaranya sudah tentu tidak asing bagi anda, namun saya akan mencoba menyegarkan kembali, dan sisanya mungkin belum anda ketahui. Mari kita mulai dari beberapa program yang sudah tidak asing lagi bagi kita semua.

#1. Google Adsense
Google AdsenseGoogle Adsense adalah sebuah bisnis online berbasis Paid Per Click atau anda akan dibayar per klik yang anda hasilkan. Google Adsense adalah salah satu bisnis online terfavorit di Indonesia, dan sebagian besar pebisnis online Indonesia memilih Google Adsense sebagai program utama mereka.

Komisi yang diberikan bervariasi, tergantung dari topik iklan, asal pengunjung yang melakukan klik pada iklan Adsense dan beberapa faktor lainnya.

#2. Make Money Blogging
Saya agak bingung untuk menggunakan bahasa Indonesia yang tepat Make Money Blogginguntuk kata-kata di atas. Pada intinya, kita akan mendapatkan uang melalui blog kita. Yang harus kita lakukan adalah tetap mengupdate konten, melakukan optimasi blog dan bergabung dengan beberapa program bisnis online yang berhubungan.

Ada banyak peluang bisnis melalui kegiatan blogging ini, antara lain sebagai berikut:

a. Payperpost.Com – Anda akan di bayar $5 – $20 per post

b. Reviewme.Com – Tugas anda adalah mereview products, websites dan jasa

c. Sponsoredreviews.Com – Ini adalah program paid review terfavorit untuk para pebisnis online di Indonesia

d. Smorty.Com – Salah satu program Paidreview yang bagus

e. Blogitive.Com – Program yang memberikan komisi flat $5 untuk seluruh pekerjaan

#3. Menulis E-Book dan Menjualnya
Apabila anda memiliki hobby menulis dan mempunyai pengetahuan Jual Beli E-Booktentang bisnis online baik secara general maupun spesifik, maka ada baiknya anda menuangkannya dalam bentuk E-Book lalu menjual pengetahuan tersebut. Anda dapat menggunakan software dari primopdf.com untuk memproses artikel anda menjadi sebuah E-Book pdf.

Ada banyak situs yang menawarkan kemudahan dalam bisnis jual beli E-Book ini, antara lain:

a. Paydotcom.Com – Program yang menggunakan Paypal sebagai Payment Processor. Situs ini adalah alternatif dari Clickbank

b. ClickBank.Com – Salah satu program terbaik untuk berbisnis E-Book

c. TradeBit.Com – Alternatif lain menjual E-Book

#4. Jual Beli Domain
Jual Beli DomainIni adalah bisnis yang sangat mencengangkan, karena bila dilihat dari segi Return Of Investment, bisnis ini dapat dibilang yang paling tinggi. Karena menurut pengalaman, saya mendapatkan hasil di atas 8000% hanya dalam waktu 3 bulan.

Beberapa situs penyedia layanan jual beli domain:

a. Sedo.Com – Situs yang paling populer untuk berbisnis jual beli domain

b. Aftermarket.com – Salah satu alternatif berbisnis domain

c. RickLatona.com – Salah satu pelaku bisnis domain yang juga merupakan penjual dan pembeli domain

#5. Jual Keahlian Anda
Apabila anda seorang designer logo, banner, dll.. atau anda seorang programmer, anda dapat menjual keahlian anda di beberapa situs di bawah ini.

a. RentaCoder.Com – Pusatnya penyedia jasa programmer freelance

b. Elance.Com – Penyedia jasa programmer alternatif

c. LogoWorks.Com – Khusus bagi anda para desainer logo untuk web maupun untuk perusahaan

d. DesignOutpost.Com – Untuk para desainer

#6. Marketplace untuk para Fotografer
Dunia fotografi juga merupakan bidang yang tepat untuk memulai bisnis online, karena ada beberapa penyedia jasa jual beli Foto. Diantaranya:

a. ShutterStock.Com – Membayar anda $0.25 setiap foto anda di download

b. BigStockPhoto.Com – Membayar $0.5 hingga $1 per download

c. DreamsTime.Com – Anda akan dibayar sebesar 50% s/d 80% untuk setiap penjualan Foto

d. Fotolia.Com – Salah satu Marketplace favorit

#7. Desain Grafis untuk T-Shirt
Apabila anda hobby dalam mendesain kaos, cobalah jual desain anda, jika beruntung anda akan mendapatkan loyalty dari setiap penjualan yang dihasilkan. Beberapa situs yang siap membeli desain kaos anda

a. Zazzle.Com

b. SpreadShirt.Com

c. PrintMojo.Com

d. 99dogs.Com

#8. Menjadi Penulis di About.Com
Anda dapat menjadi penulis tetap di About.Com. Apabila disetujui minimal anda akan dibayar sebesar $725 / Bulan, angka yang lumayan bukan?

Apabila tertarik, cukup mendaftar di http://beaguide.about.com/index.htm

#9. Memberikan Saran nama Domain
Benarkah judul di atas? Yup, anda dibayar hanya dengan memberikan saran nama domain yang bagus. Anda akan dibayar $25 untuk setiap nama domain premium dan diminati. Apabila tertarik join sekarang di PickyDomains.Com

#10. Review Product
Tugas yang dilakukan untuk program ini secara teori dapat dibilang mudah. Namun apabila tidak sesuai dengan yang diinginkan maka anda tidak akan dibayar. Daftarkan segera di:

a. ReviewStream.Com – Anda akan dibayar $2 untuk setiap review yang disetujui

b. SoftwareJudge.Com – Anda akan dibayar diatas $50 per review

sumber :.bambosi.com

Cekidot..

As part of the relationship, advertisers around the world will soon be able to use PayPal to pay for Facebook Ads through the company’s online advertising tool. For businesses in areas where the payment process can be difficult and expensive, the option to pay with PayPal makes it even easier for advertisers, particularly small international companies, to run campaigns on Facebook. Facebook reaches more than 400 million people, 70 percent of whom live outside the United States.

In addition, PayPal will become a payment option for Facebook Credits, which is currently being tested in a small number of games and applications. The goal of Facebook Credits is to give users a fast and easy way to buy virtual goods on Facebook, including items from the Facebook Gift Shop.

“We want to give the people who use Facebook, as well as advertisers and developers, a fast and trusted way to pay across our service,” said Dan Levy, director of payment operations, Facebook. “As our business has grown, offering local methods of payment has become increasingly important for advertisers who want to buy Facebook Ads. Teaming with PayPal, a global leader in online payments, makes this possible.”

“Put simply, PayPal’s business is payments. We make it easier for customers to send and receive money online in 24 currencies and 190 markets around the world,” said Osama Bedier, PayPal’s vice president of platform and emerging technology. “We’ve always been an important part of the developer ecosystem on Facebook, and we’re excited to expand our relationship directly with Facebook to help grow advertisers’ and developers’ businesses.”

About PayPal

PayPal is the faster, safer way to pay and get paid online. The service allows members to send money without sharing financial information, with the flexibility to pay using their account balances, bank accounts, credit cards or promotional financing. With more than 81 million active accounts in 190 markets and 24 currencies around the world, PayPal enables global ecommerce. PayPal is an eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) company and is made up of three leading online payment services: the PayPal global payment service, the Payflow Gateway and Bill Me Later. The company’s open payment platform, PayPal X, allows developers to build innovative payment applications on multiple platforms and devices. More information about the company can be found at https://www.paypal.com.

About Facebook

Founded in February 2004, Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment. Facebook is a privately held company and is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.

source: businesswire.com

Here’s the list of 10 Google SEO tools, all of them free.

1. Google Webmaster Tools – Google Webmaster Tools provides publishers with detailed reports about web pages’ visibility on Google, such as indexing status, internal and external pages that link to the site, Google search queries that drive traffic to the site, crawl errors, and many other features and tips which allows webmasters to improve the site, such as using robots.txt, sitemaps, and preferred domain.
2. Google Analytics – Essentially a web traffic tracking and analytic tool that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. With Google Analytics data, publishers can make decisions on what’s the popular contents to publish.
3. Google Traffic Estimator – A tool for Google AdWords advertisers, but the Google Traffic Estimator can be used to get an idea how popular or how many page views will be the content that based on certain keywords, topics or phrases.
4. Google Keyword Tool – Another tool for Google AdWords advertisers, which can be used to get new keyword ideas to generate the content, or put in the best words inside the articles to attract more visitors via search engine.
5. Google Search-based Keyword Tool – Another Google AdWords tool which can be used to find and generate keyword and landing page ideas highly relevant and specific to the website, based on actual Google search queries.
6. Google Website Optimizer – A free website testing and optimization tool, which can be used to find out what site content and designs which best resonates with the visitors, by letting Website Optimizer to show different versions of website to visitors while tracking the performance of each version.
7. Google Zeitgeist – Follow the trend is not only applicable as investment strategy, publishers can get idea for new content based on trending subjects or topics too. Google Zeitgeist lists most popular, fastest rising and fastest falling search terms and keywords for the past years.
8. Google Trends – If past data of Google Zeitgeist is not meaningful for SEO, Google Trends allows user to view and compare the how often (up to 5) keywords or terms are been searched on Google over time, how frequently the topics have appeared in Google News stories, and in which geographic regions people have searched for them most.
9. Google Insights for Search – With Google Insights for Search, which is essentially advanced version of Google Trends, users can compare search volume patterns for a phrase, word or terms across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties, regardless of popularity.
10. Trends for Websites – Google Trends for website traffic data, which displays visitors and ranking by region, related sites visited and related keywords or terms searched. Important to get a knowledge of competitors.
11. Hot Trends (Searches) – For publishers who want to jump on the bandwagon on what’s happening right now, Hot Trends ?top 40 fastest-rising search queries right now, updated continuously throughout the day.
12. Google Ad Planner: A media management tool for website advertisers and publishers, but potentially provide valuable information on own and competitors’ websites, with statistical profile on information such as traffic statistics, visitor demographics, visitors interests, related sites, keywords search for, daily unique visitors and etc.
13. Google PageRank via Google Toolbar – Google PageRank represents the relative importance of the web pages on the Internet, which also represent quantity and quality of backlinks made to the web page. PageRank values help authors to determine which subjects are likely to success to attract attentions of others.
14. Google Related Links – Not exactly a SEO tool, but the Related Links gadget helps webmasters to retain visitors on the websites, reduce bounce rate and increase page views on their sites.
15. Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide – A guide on SEO from Google, in PDF format.

A side note is that the combination of Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools and Google Website Optimizer is called Google Trifecta, signifying the importance of these three tools for webmasters. Check out also more Google Tools listing.

The Internet search giant is aiming to link up with states and municipalities to build and test a fiber-optic network that will offer download speeds of about 1 gigabit per second, according to a blog post on the company’s Web site. Google said that speed would be fast enough to download a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than five minutes.

The company said the network would offer wire-line service directly to consumers’ homes at “a competitive price.” The network will be built by Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), but consumers will be able to choose their service provider. Google expects the test will provide its service to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.

“Our long-term vision is to see a better, faster Internet,” said Minnie Ingersoll, product manager of Google’s high-speed broadband initiative. “When everyone had dial up, we couldn’t imagine what broadband speeds would be like. By increasing speeds by 100 times faster than what’s offered today, we can create opportunities for services that we won’t even be able to envision now.”

The news had open-Internet and broadband proliferation advocates buzzing. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., both said in statements that they hoped Google’s test would help usher in a new era of ultra-high-speed Internet access to increase America’s global competitiveness.

“Big broadband creates big opportunities,” Genachowski said in a statement. “This significant trial will provide an American test bed for the next generation of innovative, high-speed Internet apps, devices, and services.”

Google put out a request for information to interested communities on Wednesday. Ingersoll said she hopes Google would be able to identify which community will be the test subject, but added that there was no immediate timeline for when the test network would be up and running.

A strong response to Google’s search (no pun intended) has already begun: Facebook groups are beginning to pop up, urging Google to pick their communities, including groups from Buffalo, N.Y. and Chapel Hill, N.C.

This isn’t the first time that Google has tried its hand at providing Internet access. In 2006, the search giant launched a free mobile broadband network in Mountain View, Calif., using small WiFi radios hanging on lampposts throughout the city.

Ingersoll said there are no plans to deploy the service beyond the test bed, but it hoped that a successful network test would help spur deployment of similar high-speed networks from other Internet service providers.

“What the government is doing and other providers are doing is great, and we applaud it, but we think there’s more innovation to be done,” she said.

Google’s desire to see improved Internet speeds is part of its strategy to keep users on the Internet, accessing its Web sites, and clicking on the ads that its sells.

“Since Google’s products and services are used by people connecting to the Internet, if people don’t have constrained bandwidth … that means they’ll spend more time on Google and other Web sites as well,” Ingersoll added.

Analysts say that no matter what Google’s intentions, the service will likely be disruptive to the status quo.

“One thing’s for sure: This is a big kick in the anthill,” said Yankee Group analyst Benoît Felten. “It likely has broadband network operators shaking in their boots.” 

By David Goldman, staff writerFebruary 10, 2010: 2:54 PM ET