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Who Will Google Buy Next?
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timothy
on Tue Jun 14, 2005 08:53 PM
from the my-brain-is-for-sale-and-cheap dept.
from the my-brain-is-for-sale-and-cheap dept.
Androsynth writes "Kuro5hin is running an article entitled Who Will Google Buy Next?, which features a list of all Google's previous buyouts and some interesting suggestions for the future." A Google-buyout betting pool seems in order.
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BUY ME !! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:BUY ME !! (Score:4, Funny)
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Out of Beta? (Score:4, Insightful)
Rather than buy more companies, why not develop some of their current ideas beyond the point of "Beta".
Sometimes I think that Google uses the term Beta just to make users feel like their in some kind of exclusive, pre-release club. Beta as a branding concept. Who would have thought!?
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Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Google'd get all the "in soviet russia" jokes anyone could ever want, though.
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Re:Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
In Soviet Russia [google.com] Google googles YOU!
And, it helps get your Insightful reading pleasure [google.com] for the day.
Also, some interesting [google.com] possibilities [google.com].
Yay for google.
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Re:Slashdot (Score:3, Funny)
Slashdot of course. Imagine all the searchable insightful posts.
Nah... it would still be useless. We'll get dupes anyway... ;P
Yay! (Score:5, Interesting)
Mc Google's (Score:2, Funny)
Oh! Oh! (Score:3, Funny)
i think i speak for more than myself when i say... (Score:5, Funny)
or
"640 buyouts ought to be enough for anybody"
Re:i think i speak for more than myself when i say (Score:3, Informative)
GOOG Market Capitalization, 06/14/2005: $77.3B
It would be a really, REALLY difficult thing for MSFT to buy out GOOG. Esp since that wouldn't really give them ownership of the company, as the outstanding shares don't add up to 50% if I recall correctly.
Re:i think i speak for more than myself when i say (Score:3, Informative)
They also have close to $40bn in cash.
They could easily put together a half cash, half shares offer for Google at a very good price.
You are not comparing like with like - shareholders equity and market cap are altogether different things. In any case smaller companies can buyout bigger ones, by paying with shares in the combined business - however that is not necessary here.
Where you may be right is that Google is too closely held to be easy to buy - a few big shareh
Go ahead (Score:5, Insightful)
Go ahead. [etrade.com]
Somewhere, someone (Score:2)
Right at this moment, someone at VA Software sits expectantly near the phone... waiting... counting their LNUX stock...
Bookie (Score:4, Funny)
Certain things caught my eye (Score:4, Interesting)
Google Mobile? So are they making cell phones or something? I'm confused.
Buzznet - Yahoo! beat Google to the punch by acquiring Flickr, one of my candidates in the first draft of this article. Like Flickr, Buzznet is a photo hosting and sharing service that features unique tagging features. It is possible to browse by tag and see all sorts of interesting stuff. Buzznet would probably jibe with Picasa's Hello photo posting service, perhaps include some sort of photo-Blogger, and integrate well with Orkut.
I think this would do very well and could be a competitor to Imageshack.us. I also think they would integrate it w/ Picasa probably and Blogger.
Monster - Monster is the most popular job search site. Some bloggers have tossed this idea around, touting various forms of integration with other Google services. They also mention that Yahoo! owns HotJobs. However, one wonders whether Google is interested in this market at all.
Hmm...that'd be interesting to see
Anyone seen Epic? Epic [albinoblacksheep.com] is a mock 'history' presentation on Google from the POV of 2015. It's quite interesting and while the idea of this is creepy it'd be cool at the same time.
world media (Score:4, Interesting)
You forgot Keyhole [keyhole.com]. I think they read Snow Crash.
It seems like they are imagining a free (to the user) all-knowledge-and-communication-anywhere brought to you by anonymous infrastructure. The problem with their scheme is its all based on advertising. Bleagh.
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Re:world media (Score:3, Insightful)
I see it and go, "great, more awesome free services that I don't have to pay for and all I have to put up with are a couple of ads on my screen!"
Holy Google Empire (Score:2, Funny)
Didn't someone predicted the future of Google be4? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Didn't someone predicted the future of Google b (Score:3, Insightful)
Who Will Google Buy Next? (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Slashdot (Score:4, Insightful)
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My Money Is On: (Score:5, Interesting)
I think VoIP is about to hit a tipping point and Google can cash in on it quick by acquiring Skype. Get rid of the stupid name, bring on some Google quality branding and user experience and people will be bidding on eBay for accounts just like Okurit and gMail. The Google brand and marketing power can bring Skype the thing that any network needs to succeed- users.
It would be a very inexpensive acquisition for Google and it would add a sort of voice infastructure into the entire Google range of products.
Re:My Money Is On: (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:My Money Is On: (Score:3, Insightful)
Well well (Score:2, Funny)
Well, it should be obvious--they've stated that they're going to cruise around downtown in a van, so it sounds like they're going to start buying hookers.
This is probably the first significant indicator of evil...
Real Estate (Score:2, Funny)
Stumble Upon (Score:2)
The choice is obvious (Score:5, Funny)
Google should buy zombo.com [zombo.com]
You heard it here first.
Wow, I think I'm dyslexic... (Score:2)
Thus I proved the real three stages of denial:
1) What? How could they do that?
2) What? I jsut don't understand!
3) Oh, wait, nevermind, I'm just a dumbass.
More Possible Google Spinoffs (Score:5, Funny)
Smithsoogle -- the library digitization project gone insane.
Google Bitches -- Like friendster but for pimps.
Google Jobs -- nope, not what you think...it's actually Steve Jobs since his soul seems to be up for sale lately.
Google.gov -- DHS meets Patriot Act meets all your data. Pledge your allegiance, boys, and come to grips with the fact that we're all screwed.
Google.gov (Score:3, Funny)
how about invest in internet 2 (Score:2)
Bring highspeed ondemand network to the people.
Broadband has been hijacked by the corporates and it isn't as fast as they want you to think.
My 2 Guesses (Score:3, Insightful)
2) EBay
Lucky Lucky Google (Score:3, Funny)
It exists (Score:5, Insightful)
There is a place where you get money for guessing something like this. It's called the stock market
Grammar police, pull over... (Score:3, Funny)
Really. "Whom". It's not so hard.
Re:Grammar police, pull over... (Score:3, Funny)
Overpriced? Comparison to eBay (Score:4, Insightful)
Not that GOOG isn't profitable (and only will go up up in the future thanks to their BRILLIANT, calculated moves) but it's probably WAY overpriced right now. eBay on the other hand makes money from so many ways through it's auction service and float money from Paypal plus eBay has had the time to be subjected to market correction.
GOOG stock is set to be corrected to reality anytime now. It's gonna be ripe for the shorting soon.
Who Google Will Buy (Score:5, Interesting)
Well, why not ?
Google could unleashing searching on the DVR's. This would allow users to just input a search term and have it record all episodes that the term returned in results. Who needs the TV guides or tvtome anymore ?
I'm not the only who predicts it -
[flash video] http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/ [robinsloan.com]
Re:Who Google Will Buy (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Who Google Will Buy (Score:4, Interesting)
http://groups-beta.google.com/ [google.com] ==> Blogger.com
http://images.google.com/ [google.com] ==> Picasa
http://maps.google.com/ [google.com] ==> Keyhole
and as you say
http://video.google.com/ [google.com] ==> Tivo
Maybe we could also see:
http://scholar.google.com/ [google.com] ==> CiteSeer
http://print.google.com/ [google.com] ==> University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, The New York Public Library, and Oxford University now
http://news.google.com/ [google.com] ==> News Corporation
http://www.google.com/ig [google.com] ==> Yahoo
I don't know, there's probably more, but it's nearing 4 so I better go to bed.
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My prediction: a credit card company (Score:3, Interesting)
Yes it's a diabolical though, but hey there not evil
Re:I wonder... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I wonder... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I wonder... (Score:3, Funny)
A guy walks in, and he's looking for an expensive piece of equipment for his home entertainment sytem. He tells my dad, "I don't want any of this 'Made in Mexico' crap. I want something American. Like Sony."
Re:Don't Forget What Google's Mission Is (Score:3, Funny)