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Who Will Google Buy Next?
Androsynth writes "Kuro5hin is running an article entitled Who Will Google Buy Next?, which features a list of all Google's previous buyouts and some interesting suggestions for the future." A Google-buyout betting pool seems in order.
Go ahead.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
I thought the Oracle had foretold the destiny of Google in EPIC!!! What's going on?! Is the world going crazy?!
/joke
anyone would think they already own them with the amount of stories they post.
Don't worry. In capitalism it's a matter of time before all companies merge together or get bought out with just a few big companies left in the end. Look at the auto industry. MS-Googlemart-Amazonhat, here they come.
You only partner when you can't afford to beat or buy. Google shouldn't be doing that for quite some time - they've got cash, and they've got talent, and they've got the time to use both.
Vobbo: Video Blogs
OK, that epic thing was scary as fuck. HJ
1) CraigsList
2) EBay
There is a place where you get money for guessing something like this. It's called the stock market
And they could coordinate the caching of sites before they get slashdotted.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Actually, the smart money is on either a VOIP firm or a larger hosting provider.
They've been buying dark fiber for a while. They also became a domain registrar. Fiber + domains = hosting, almost every time.
If I were EV1, ServINT, ThePlanet, GoDaddy, ServerBeach, etc, I'd be hoping for the phone call.
Vobbo: Video Blogs
With a P/E of 110, GOOG buying anything huge (like ebay) would be similar to AOL buying Time Warner. We saw what happened there, all of the irrational exuberance of the dot coms crashing and AOL becoming a shadow of itself and becoming a subsidiary of it's purchasee.
Not that GOOG isn't profitable (and only will go up up in the future thanks to their BRILLIANT, calculated moves) but it's probably WAY overpriced right now. eBay on the other hand makes money from so many ways through it's auction service and float money from Paypal plus eBay has had the time to be subjected to market correction.
GOOG stock is set to be corrected to reality anytime now. It's gonna be ripe for the shorting soon.
- Google archives/indexes EVERYTHING
- Remember Google search on audio materials? (first result)
- ???
... Profit!? Yes. Soon after Google will be inserting voicemail ads based on keywords in your conversation. "Like gay animals having sex? www.beastigoatse.xxx!!!"
- The eternal battle on
/. of hardliner privacy advocates vs. google groupies will drown out all the Apple vs. M$ vs. Linux vs. A toaster oven debates. Not to mention the 3 dupes a day about "Google goes into your home and listens to you mumble while you sleep" (thank you /. editors) and "Google patents cold fusion and audio indexing."
So, as you can see, we're all doomed.parent is modded INSIGHTFUL??? I think it was supposed to be a joke....
"My life is a joke that no one gets"
That's a problem?!
I see it and go, "great, more awesome free services that I don't have to pay for and all I have to put up with are a couple of ads on my screen!"
Rather than buy more companies, why not develop some of their current ideas beyond the point of "Beta".
Sometimes I think that Google uses the term Beta just to make users feel like their in some kind of exclusive, pre-release club. Beta as a branding concept. Who would have thought!?