Google TV?

Over at Engadget, there was a post about the possibility of Google TV. The talk has been all over the net this week because Google had posted an ad for a "Google TV Project Manager." (They’ve since taken down the ad.) The person they were looking for should be knowledgeable about “the intersection of Internet and Television technologies, Video-On-Demand, Personal Video Recorders and emergence of next generation set-top-boxes with IP connectivity,” according to that now-deleted post.

Speculation is rampant. Let’s begin: Google buys up dark fiber. Google launches Video Search. Google hires TV Project Manager. Hmmm. I think Google is planning an ISP. In my neighborhood, Brighthouse delivers high-speed internet and cable TV; Verizon FIOS just became available, which is only internet access for now, but in the future, they plan on offering all the TV channels in HDTV. Maybe this is where Google wants to compete. The Google ISP where you surf the net via free Wi-Fi and watch TV over the Google OS using the Google browser. It could happen.