Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Yet More Google Gazing

Posted by michael on Friday August 20, 2004 @05:23AM from the future-cloudy-ask-again dept.

povvell writes "Bob Cringely has joined the club and just set out his personal vision for the future of Google now that it's flush with cash, thereby joining a happy band of Google gazers. But is he right, and are they? My own guess is that the company intends to become the biggest advertising platform in the world. What's yours?"

1 of 253 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:Microsoft buyout by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-20 05:29 · Score: 5, Informative

Now that they're public, Microsoft can buy them and replace their service with whatever they choose.
You have no idea how the stock market works do you? The Google founders have a class of stock that gives them more voting rights than anyone else so unless THEY want to sell out, it'd be impossible for Microsoft to strong-arm them into selling.