Google's Love For Small Businesses

bariswheel writes "The Fearless Frog is at it again: In his latest post, Cringely aims to slap some sense into Microsoft, Apple, and IBM altogether. From the article: 'What counts is that for Microsoft the platform is the PC while for Google the platform is the Internet and nobody can hope to control the Internet -- not Microsoft OR Google. Google is making a ton of money from people [small/medium sized businesses] who never were even in business before. This is not only a fundamental change in how advertising is done; it is a fundamental change in how BUSINESS is done.'"

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New Rules

[Duncan3]

Want business, pay Google.
Want more business then the next guy, pay Google more.
Want to stay in business keep paying Google.
Want to kill the next guy, click-fraud your competitors, so they pay Google.
Oh oh, here some the spyware companies on your keywords, pay Google more money.

Bill it all to the customer of course, who is screwed no matter what.

Hash, but that's the new world order. Smart business. Now if Google would only apply all those smarts to something not evil.

Re:Obsession with small business

[Overly Critical Guy]

It's the whole left-wing "big successful corporations are bad and that makes me feel enlightened" mindset.

Re:old ways...

[LordLucless]

profit with no product nor service nor any other material trapping.

It's called Communism; the system where the biggest bludger wins.

Re:Obsession with small business

[tbone1]

From personal experience, I think the slide into corporate oblivion starts when the first MBAs join the company.

I can't argue with that.

An MBA is literally training on how not to be a human being. Business schools rob students of their humanity, and teach them only to worship short term profits.

You assume that there is the humanity to rob in the first place. I went to a university with a top-ten business school and while there were some intelligent people with actual personalities and senses of humor there, most were drones before they ever went into a business class. They listened to the same music, saw the same movies and tv shows, and read the same books as everyone else. One of them reading Wilde or listening to college radio or quoting Monty Python was a nine-days wonder.