Google is about to cut a deal with Verizon that would end the Internet as we know it

[Simon]

What could happen is that Google...in its constant quest to deliver the best and fastest websites to its searchers...will begin to display only the very fastest loading sites on the first few pages of search results. They're already using page loading speed as part of the AdWords Quality Score, and they did announce back in April that they're already using it for search rankings. So anyone who isn't paying the extra extortion rate for the higher-speed delivery of their content could just see their search rankings disappear from the first 30 pages of Google search results.