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| Thread ID: 48361 | 2004-08-21 00:39:00 | Google: Will the slagging begin? | Baldy (26) | Press F1 |
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| 263871 | 2004-08-21 00:39:00 | Now that Google has become probably the most successful American public company, with a stock exchange value of $US27.2 billion, I wonder if the tall poppy sydrom will kick in and people will start slagging them. And to think they started in a garage 6 years ago - using borrowed computers. The outcome added billions to Google's corporate coffers and made billionaires of its founding pair, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, each of whom held onto most of their shares and woke up today $US3.8 billion the richer for it. |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 263872 | 2004-08-21 00:56:00 | I have dibs on 2 weeks :D | Megaman (344) | ||
| 263873 | 2004-08-21 01:16:00 | I don't see any real evidence of predatory behaviour, invasive or monopalistic practises. They've kept it relatively simple; provide a basic service, do it well and add incremental improvements that add to the service rather than just the price without impacting on your choice of whoever elses service you may wish to try. They have crawled then walked and now they are jogging along. Now they are spreading into other areas and this is where they may come unstuck in the users perception of them, trying to be all things to all people is fraught with difficulty and is rarely successful long term. Staying where they are is not an option either, there are some big players eyeing up there territory, hopefully it will remain competative, if they fail non-captive users will simply move their allegence to another service and Google know this well. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 263874 | 2004-08-21 02:01:00 | While I agree with you about the way google have developed, they are now a public company with shareholders. And the only thing shareholders want is a return on their investment, it will be they who dictate how this return is generated, and so we may well start seeing some of the practises that we hold in contempt become a part of the way google is run. One however hpoes that this will not be the case. | Odin (227) | ||
| 263875 | 2004-08-21 02:07:00 | Google at the Inq (www.theinquirer.net) tells a tale. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 263876 | 2004-08-21 02:27:00 | Nice article :D | Odin (227) | ||
| 263877 | 2004-08-21 03:24:00 | Shareholders want managers who will do things to increase the share price. They don't seem to understand (or care) that a steady increase in share price is exactly like blowing up a balloon. At some stage it bursts. We can still enjoy Google while it lasts. ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 263878 | 2004-08-21 03:49:00 | >>And to think they started in a garage... Like Apple did. Now where is that garage?? |
Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 263879 | 2004-08-21 04:40:00 | > > > And to think they started in a garage . . . > Like Apple did . Now where is that garage?? And HP! I was in my garage this afternoon resizing a pallet for an overseas shipment . I expect great things in the future when I capture 95% of the world pallet resizing market with my ultra-simple handsaw, pinch bar and claw-hammer technology . I will fight open-source pallet resizing through the international courts tooth and nail, and woe-betide anybody who clones my pallet dimensions or resizing hardware specification . Cheers Billy 8-{) :) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 263880 | 2004-08-21 05:01:00 | >I will fight open-source pallet resizing through the international courts tooth and nail, >and woe-betide anybody who clones my pallet dimensions or resizing hardware >specification. Well done Billy T, it is only fair to warn you that your Pallett, like many aothers may come under the applicable sections of my pending patent. I intend to patent the principle of lifting the pallett from underneath by means of forked or non-forked tongues of metal or other material, for the purpose of lifting, storing or moving any goods that are not palletts. Further, a suspended or slung pallett is for the purposes of this pallett patent considered to be a lifted pallett. The patent additinaly covers the principle of interposing the pallett between the load and the earth for the principle purpose of doing something with the pallett, the load or the earth. It amazes me to think that none of the many pallett manufacturers did even the simplest research to ensure they did not conflict with a patent yet to be requested. Any box or sack will be covered under the "Look and feel" of the system clauses. |
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