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This free wi-fi network is just the latest of a seemingly endless list of projects unveiled by the world's leading search company – Google, where their staff devote 20% of their free time to complete this projects. Don’t you just love Google ? This will not even hurt Google’s wallet as they collected $2.5 billion in revenue for the quarter ending June 30, 2006

After months of beta testing and anticipation, the Internet giant plans to open up its free, wireless Internet network to Mountain View's 72,000 residents. The network covers about 90 percent of the city's 12 square miles and offers maximum data-transfer speeds of up to 1 megabit per second -- slightly slower than DSL. The company moved up its launch of the network in part, it says, because of the onslaught of people asking to be testers. One thousand residents tested it this summer.