One Mega Computer To Run every Computer?

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Has The Idea of one Mega Internet Computer Operating System ever crossed your mind? I have definitely thought about the possibility of a World Wide Operating System but I guess I was not the only one thinking about it. Google started out as a Search Engine, Their next big step was announcing Android Their new Mobile Operating System, and then their browser Chrome.

I know most large companies such as Microsoft and Apple never think about the possibility of their systems becoming obsolete by one company. Google isn't even in the Desktop Operating System game or so it seems to the naked eye. I read that Google may be working on a Internet Operating System.... Okay the idea sounds cool but after further research They may have something even bigger in mind!

Google has 100,000 Servers running multiple Web Applications. I was browsing blogs by other people who have had the same thought going through their head and it turns out that Google does have a working Mega Operating System their was even a link to an article about it that Google "moved" and the page it took me to did not have anything about the Google Operating System.

According to "What is this platform that Google is building? It's a distributed computing platform that can manage web-scale datasets on 100,000 node server clusters. It includes a petabyte, distributed, fault tolerant filesystem, distributed RPC code, probably network shared memory and process migration. And a datacenter management system which lets a handful of ops engineers effectively run 100,000 servers."

I don't know about you but I wouldn't want to be on the same mega computer as a criminal.

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Good thread — the intuition behind ’s post (Android + Chrome + huge server farms = “something big”) was common in 2008. That worry about a single company controlling every digital identity is valid — ’s privacy points and ’s note about Google’s rapid rise reflect real concerns — but the technical reality is less spooky than the phrase “one Mega Operating System” suggests.

Google’s engineers built large, specialized backend systems to store and process enormous datasets, not a single unified desktop OS for everyone. Their published work describes a distributed filesystem and batch/real‑time processing tools designed to run services across thousands of machines — examples include The Google File System, MapReduce, and Bigtable. (research.google.com)

Cluster orchestration and datacenter scheduling are separate layers (Google’s Borg paper explains how jobs are packed and run at scale). Those pieces let Google operate many services reliably, but they’re infrastructure for server‑side applications, not an identity‑controlling consumer OS. Meanwhile Google did ship consumer OS projects (Android and later Chrome OS); Chrome OS was publicly announced in July 2009 as a web‑centric, lightweight OS for devices. (research.google)

Practical takeaway: centralization concentrates risk, so treat cloud providers like any critical vendor. Simple steps: keep local backups, enable full‑disk encryption and two‑factor authentication, separate accounts for sensitive services, and prefer open or self‑hosted options for data you must control. For enterprises, hybrid or multi‑cloud designs reduce single‑vendor exposure. The “mega OS” idea was a useful alarm bell; it’s better read as a prompt to protect data, not as proof that one company literally runs every machine.

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jwenting 1,905 duckman

Back to the dumb terminal...

If this were to happen say byebye to your privacy as Google would have all your data, everything.
You'd exist only as long as Google allowed it, and they could change your identity at will.
You'd be what and who Google says you are. If they don't like you, they erase you and suddenly you no longer have an identity, a bank account, a job, a house, anything.

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tiger86 16 Posting Pro

I know it's pretty darn creepy if you ask me. I did a lot of research reading everything I could find on it and well yeah what you said CREEPY!

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diva4321 0 Newbie Poster

I totally agree, the google came into the race from no where and had the market in their hands.

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diva4321 0 Newbie Poster

I totally agree, the google came into the race from no where and had the market in their hands.
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diva4321 0 Newbie Poster

I totally agree, the google came into the race from no where and had the market in their hands.
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diva4321 0 Newbie Poster

I totally agree, the google came into the race from no where and had the market in their hands.
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