Google will make a pitch to its hometown Mountain View's city council to offer free Wi-Fi access to the city, reports MediaPost. "This proposal is in the same spirit of making the world's information easily and quickly accessible as our recent San Francisco Wi-Fi bid and is technically comparable to that initiative," Chris Sacca, Google's principal of new business development, is quoted as saying. Google has proposed free 300kbps Wi-Fi access to San Francisco and is competing with dozens of other companies there.

By offering Wi-Fi service, Google could provide local advertisers more precise geographical targeting because it would know which hotspots users are connecting from.