They say talk is cheap. Google thinks it should be free.
 

I knew they had plans to takeover the world / the internet, and now with their IPO money they can do it pretty quickly. :helpme

Everyone's revenues are slowly going to drop as Google and other first point-of-entry sites control where their surfers go; to your sites/services, or to theirs. :helpme

Mapquest will die with Google Maps, all other free services for VoIP will die / not be able to compete with Google once they release that... and the list goes on.. Google Hosting soon I'm sure, Google Web Design, Google Amazon-store, Google DVD rental services, etc. etc. etc..

What else could they take over?

Matt

Yeah, they will take one net after the other:(
:upsidedow

that is just googlerific.

You gotta remember, Google employes alot of programmers and they dont make work strict with them its a layed back envoirment, I'm sure one of their staff members made the program and desided to release it.. Google is a easy going company that is rich as fuck, They just play it by ear and everytime they do it seems to blow up in shit storms of money lol

porn.google.com

i dont like google.

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They'll become the Walmart of online; kill off all the little businesses.

Manowar - Porn, possibly, but they're publically traded, so that's one area they might not touch.

Google Auctions? Google Classifieds? Google Dating Service?

Yup, it allows people to thrive and they pay their employees for good ideas.

Matt

What else could they take over?

The Bush Administration.

That would be GOOD.

Imagine, Yahoo [#1 ranked in traffic], MSN [#2 ranked in traffic], and Google [#3 ranked in traffic] all showed a long campaign showing how the Bush administration used fear tactics to get re-voted in / the republicans... I don't think their party would get in again; though it's the US, so who knows..

Matt

can't wait for these hot tub grandma videos submitted to thehun by google

MS won't let it happen, not without a fight.

Google's market cap: 78.07B
Microsoft's mkt. cap: 290.31B

Google has some of the most intelligent and internet-savvy / business-savvy people behind them, and attract the most internet and business savvy people as well.

How long did it take Google to get to $78 Billion, versus how long it took Microsoft to get to $290 Billion? Do the math, and Google will takeover.. Microsoft can't do much, unless they duplicate and copy, even then, Google I'm sure has 10,000s of projects going on that no one is aware of, and 100s to 1000s of those projects will be LARGE and everyone will end up using them.

BastarD - LOL.

Matt

Video telling the future of Google... do you think what they say is gonna happen... really will? I think they're right on track.

As a search engine they deffy suck alot more nowadays, plus they seem to be getting very greedy...

Competition is good, anyway i'm sure they will get some anti-trust lawsuits as soon they push the wrong buttons...

looking at the last election results and loads of info about him i would say chances of him getting re-elected would be the same...

in-breed rednecks, most trailer trash and christian fanatics don't use the internet :winkwink:

Long long time ago, altavista was the shit. Now not many ppl know them(anymore)

I think the same will happen with google. They are making some bad moves(like banning cnet, because they showed what google can do) etc. Also in some other fields they get bad attitude. People always liked google, because they were so "easy" and open minded. Now they get much bigger, they get the attitude thing, and Í'm pretty sure, it will get more bureaucratic. Not sure IF it will happen, but I think it will. We will see

Andre

Yahoo has had all these services for ages, and they had them before google too, did everyone else die then? No they did not..

Google will go back to where Yahoo is as soon as the next best thing gets released searchengine wise on the market... Google is great, but many others are just as good...

Google will soon be getting into music too. iTunes beware.

Google never wants to be a portal like Yahoo!. I doubt that they will ever adopt that type of a model However, they are very good at innovating existing technologies and creating free options. Advertising though as a revenue model only has so much headroom before it won't support their efforts. However, that too is an unknown, as Google gains more web market share they will also increase their ad availability. As long as conversion stays in a respectable range so that the average business can afford to support Google it will maintain.

I am really wondering what google has done lately to make everyone claim they are so innovative? Seriously?

Google wont be #1 forever.

i swear, google are a bunch of fags.




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Exactly.

If it was possible for him to be re-elected I'm sure he'd be shot. Everyone against him is working against him though.

Matt

google is slowly taking over the internet, their presence is even a threat to
Billion Dollar companies such Mircrosoft and Apple, just to name a few.

:smokin

hmm this sucks.

Yahoo decided to branch out years ago and lost focus on it's main source of traffic/visitors/popularity: it's directory and search.

I can see Google heading down the same path. This is what happens when you go public: You have antsy shareholders who want more, more, more and so you expand until you've completely diluted your original product.

I'm no stock analyst or investor, but I'd say if you have Google stock enjoy it while it lasts ... they are spreading themselves too thin (esp. with MSN Search becoming a serious part of Microsoft's future wold takeover plans)