{"id":47708,"date":"2009-11-24T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Google-Doesn-t-Want-to-Be-an-Utility-Company-127903.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-24T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T14:47:00","slug":"google-doesnt-want-to-be-a-utility-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/47708","title":{"rendered":"Google Doesn&#39;t Want to Be a Utility Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/images\/newsrsz\/Google-Doesn-t-Want-to-Be-an-Utility-Company-2.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/> With its hands in every cookie jar in the kitchen, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be anything that Google isn&#8217;t doing or planning to do. It&#8217;s gotten to the point where even the slightest hint or rumor that Google is planning to enter a new market is making established players worry. But do utility companies have any reason to fear Google? As far fetched as it may seem, the truth is that, in a way, they very well may have, though the search giant is eager to dispel any worries. <\/p>\n<p>Google was represented by Ed Lu, the company&#8217;s program manager for advanced products at the GreenBeat 2009 conference, focused green technology. There&#8217;s a very good reason for Google to be present at such a conference, aside from building operating systems and selling ads, it also has a big focus on alternative energy and manages several &ldquo;green&rdquo; projects through its philanthropic arm Google.org. <\/p>\n<p>Google also offers PowerMeter, an power-usage monitoring software designed to work with so-called &ldquo;smart meters&rdquo; giving users an easy way of keeping track of their energy usage. It&#8217;s this tool and the partnerships which Google has with several device manufacturers that lead to the inevitable question of whether Google was trying to squeeze its way as a middle man of sorts between utility companies and the consumers. <br \/><br \/... (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Google-Doesn-t-Want-to-Be-an-Utility-Company-127903.shtml\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its hands in every cookie jar in the kitchen, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be anything that Google isn&#8217;t doing or planning to do. It&#8217;s gotten to the point where even the slightest hint or rumor that Google is planning to enter a new market is making established players worry. But do utility companies have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}