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The World According to Google

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the don't-over-diversify dept.

Ant writes "BBC News has an interesting article and a streaming video documentary on Google. It has interviews with Google staff and people who dislike the company. From the article: 'In the 18 months since its stock market flotation, Google has been transformed from a company that prided itself on being simple and effective, into a multi-headed high tech beast which wants to get involved in everything.'"

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  1. Google & Amazon by PlayCleverFully · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is a cool video about the subject, what would happen if Google and Amazon merged.

    http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/

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  2. Karma whoring video stream link by iangoldby · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the URL for the Real Video stream for those who don't want to watch in some horrible little JavaScript window:

    The Money programme investigates the internet search engine Google.

    (Works here in the UK at least.)

  3. Re:Maybe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Google Earth has been available for the Mac since 10th Jan - check http://earth.google.com/

  4. Re:Complaints from the Staff are Overblown. by Saven+Marek · · Score: 3, Informative

    > I certainly would not be bugged. I could care less.

    How much less?

  5. Re:Materialisation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    Nothing is going to materialise to make up for the over inflated stock price. Currently the stock is trading at 20x current revenues of around 5.25B. IBM has a similar market cap and their revenues are 91B. Their revenue growth has been almost doubling year over year but even IF that rate is sustainable it would still take over 4 years for that growth to be reflected in the current stock price. Sun makes about 2x the revenue of Google and has a fraction of the market cap. Dell makes 10 times the revenue and twice the operating cash flow of Google and their market cap is about half.

    This reflects the same issues that were voiced by the few people that spoke out before the bubble burst and the many more that announced it post bubble. Google at the most should be in the 200dollar range

  6. Universal login by wonk · · Score: 2, Informative

    "but as soon as they start using their gmail account system like a Microsoft Passport system for all their apps, I'll be outta there."

    They're already doing that - see Google Accounts.