There's another little issue, too. Google is one company, a for-profit vendor at that. For SPDY, or any alternative to HTTP, to go anywhere it would need to be under the guidance of the standards organization that oversees the Internet, the IETF. 

Word has it, too, that the much hyped, but as yet to be delivered, So says blog site TechCrunch citing unnamed sources. Chrome OS, like the Chrome browser, is Google's attempt to make the Web faster, in this case by creating an operating system geared for cloud computing and taking much of the application the burden off the client.

Google may have big plans for a faster Internet. But the road to turn any of these efforts, much less all of them, into winners is long .