shorebreak - 3:02 pm on May 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

For those of us non-techies, could someone please summarize this entire discussion in terms that Joe Schmoe can understand?

Q: Does this mean Google's SERPs quality will have to get worse soon?
Q: Are we talking about Google having to pull back on high-bandwidth products like Maps, Video, etc?
Q: Can we extrapolate from available data what G's infrastructure costs will be over the next 3 years if they continue business as usual?

Also, isn't there some role that P2P could play in saving G money on datacenter costs? If they developed a great G P2P client and distributed it, G's data serving costs would be distributed among its users. Does that idea have any merit?