Search Engine giant Google, is offering free wi-fi Internet service called Google WiFi in a limited way to two public sites near the company’s Mountain View, California, headquarters -- a pizza parlor and a gym -- located in the heart of Silicon Valley.
The company has already launched a sponsored Wi-Fi "hotspot" in San Francisco’s Union Square shopping district in April with a start-up called Feeva.
"Google WiFi is a community outreach program to offer free wireless access in areas near our headquarters," the Google Spokesman described. The service is still in development stage and the company is collecting the feedback from the users.
With the offering of WiFi service, Google expands to another competitive market of Internet Service Providers and telecommunication companies all the more since it introduced an instant messaging and Web telephone calling service called Google Talk in August.
Google has submitted a bid to offer a free WiFi Internet Services across the city of San Francisco in 2006. Google spokesman Nate Tyler said "It is also an opportunity to make San Francisco a test-ground for new location-based applications and services that enable people to find relevant information exactly when and where they need it. We anticipate that the services we develop on this network will ultimately benefit end users and Google partners."
A similar offer was made by Google for Mountain View as well. Mountain View, with a population of about 70,000 people -- about one-tenth that of San Francisco -- would be the first city to be converted to a free wireless Internet zone by Google.
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