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| Kiman4 |
 Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 3:21 pm Post subject: Google the superpower? |
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| To me, google seems like a plain old search engine, free of charge, that also runs email on the side and powers advertisements all over the web. How does that make them a billion dollar company and where does all that money come from? |
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| Helter Skelter |
| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:54 am Post subject: Re: Google the superpower? |
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| Kiman4 wrote: | | advertisements all over the web. |
Thats part of it... |
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| Prince-Charming |
| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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| It is hard to believe that the majority of their income comes from people clicking on advertisements. I never click those. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:44 pm Post subject: Re: Google the superpower? |
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| Kiman4 wrote: | | To me, google seems like a plain old search engine, free of charge, that also runs email on the side and powers advertisements all over the web. How does that make them a billion dollar company and where does all that money come from? |
Heh, its not a billion dollar company... its a $150 billion company by market valuation standards.
Where does the money come from? Well, that depends what you mean by "money". On a true free cash flow basis, Google makes nearly nothing. You would be correct to say that advertisements are responsible for something like 98% of revenues and income though... |
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| Kiman4 |
| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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| so that little bar at the bottom of this page that i never click on has earned google over 140 million dollars |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Kiman4 wrote: | | so that little bar at the bottom of this page that i never click on has earned google over 140 million dollars |
Not 140,000,000 - thats 140 million. It made them worth 150,000,000,000 give or take a few.
Also, clicking on the bar is a good thing. |
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| Grimreaper |
| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:36 am Post subject: |
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CNBC actually made a BIG deal about the Super Bowl ads that were run. Even had ole Donnie Douche-bag come on to give his overinflated opinion of what he thunk was a good ad.  In reality  Who shivagits?!! Eventually the day will come when NIKE won't be out lookin fer a wunderkind offa Youtube (now werth 1.5 bil ) to come up with an ad to promote their chitin overpriced gangsta rapper shoes....cause the ads where NIKE pays a bunch ov NBA thugs $1.5 mil each ainna werkin no mo. When dat day comes GOOG is a sub $100 stock. Sidenote: There will still be fokes who will pay $3000 a ticket to sit in the rain and watch da Stooper Bowl. Luckily for us many of them buy stocks on Cramer's advice so at least sum ovem will be eliminated....as I often stated, dat'll be good for orderly mawkets.  |
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| txga |
| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:34 am Post subject: |
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| I actually like yahoo better. I could never really get into google. |
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| frac0019 |
| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:53 am Post subject: |
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| txga wrote: | | I actually like yahoo better. I could never really get into google. | I like yahoo better too.. |
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| Kiman4 |
| Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| zerolikedis |
| Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:58 am Post subject: |
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| google earth is the shiznit. i looked back at my house and saw my old car parked outside. so all the pictures they took had to be about 3 years ago. its funny to think theyve been planning for a while. it didnt just happen overnight |
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| Grimreaper |
| Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:12 am Post subject: |
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| zerolikedis wrote: | | google earth is the shiznit. i looked back at my house and saw my old car parked outside. so all the pictures they took had to be about 3 years ago. its funny to think theyve been planning for a while. it didnt just happen overnight |
Shhhhhhh....they isn't gonna git GOOG ta $515 ifn ya make it sound like GOOG wassa scam er sumthin....and think what it'll do to Cramer's reputation ifn it toins out GOOG was in fack da royal scam. Well royal scam 2 anyhoo. TheSCaM will always be numba 1 in my heart. |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:55 am Post subject: |
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| Geb is sick, so he can't share this, but when GOOG was at $500 he had the wisdom to take out a bearish option spread that gets nice and in-the-money once GOOG goes under $460. Maybe GOOG being about $2.50 from that point will make him feel better. |
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| zerolikedis |
| Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:43 am Post subject: |
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Grimm my search of choice is Dogpile.com actually its my home page(what an honour)
but i was pointing out that they do have some good ideas. i use theire blogger, picasa for pics on my puter, earth , gmail. and translator . i dont know if that makes them a billion dollars, but they are putting in work . did you know they had google earth up their sleeves. it must have took them a long time to develop it and take the pictures and chit |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:03 am Post subject: |
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| Google Earth has actually been around for a while. I know I had a version of it on my old computer, so it has to be more than 6 months old. |
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