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- psud0, on 10/22/2008, -0/+26A few months ago I read the interview with Google's CEO, and he said that recession is the good time for investments. Are we going to see Google investing more and buying other companies and business while their shares are going down?
- d2002, on 10/22/2008, -0/+20In the long run online ads will out perform all other forms of advertising. Google will own everything.
- CarStan, on 10/23/2008, -0/+12Yes, it was only you. Everyone else read "What Google Gains From Crysis", followed by the question."But can Google even run it?"
- IShouldBeWorkin, on 10/23/2008, -1/+12I officially spend too much time on digg, I read that title and thought "crisis is spelled with a y".
- shredswithpiks, on 10/23/2008, -0/+10I'm sure they've been getting plenty of ad revenue from people F5ing finance.google.com all day...
- Dalhectar, on 10/23/2008, -0/+6Financial crisis means Google can buy startups at half price.
- stradf, on 10/23/2008, -1/+5Google might gain from the crysis, but my 100 google shares aren't.
:( - qwikk, on 10/23/2008, -0/+4interesting to note that Eric Schmidt attended a Bilderberg meeting this June.
- archer104, on 10/23/2008, -0/+3Just watch out for those guys who are so quick to boast about their ad-block.
- UselessTrivia, on 10/23/2008, -0/+3He is a follower of the Warren Buffet model...so I would say chances are good.
Warren's best line: "I am fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful". - BinaryDelt, on 10/23/2008, -0/+3Is that why my CTR is so low? :-(
- dha07030, on 10/23/2008, -1/+3Prick
- Steinr, on 10/23/2008, -0/+2you need to get out more.
- MrTankJump, on 10/23/2008, -0/+2Oddly enough, I read that too.
- GoodKharma, on 10/23/2008, -0/+2Well done!
- championchap, on 10/23/2008, -0/+2I was thinking more along the lines of.
"What Google Gains From Crysis"
Followed by
Nothing but dead servers, for nothing can run Crysis. - Netrilix, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1I'm guilty as charged.
- jackdaniels06, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1This makes absolute sense to me. If I were running a small business and I had to tighten up on advertising, I'd put my money on the best of the best and advertising that is targeted and where I can get a good return on investment without breaking the bank and that would be with Google advertising, absolutely.
- WorldGroove, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1Online ads(and thus, online spending) around the world will keep investors hopeful & the Web2.0 startups afloat during this whole economic ordeal.
*crosses fingers* - travis6690, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1*cough*Apple*cough*
- sanman, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1So they can run Crisis
if anybody could, it would be them - kaskoosek, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1Worst time to buy goog is now.
No one pays for stupid advertisements in a recession. - RadiatedAnt, on 10/23/2008, -1/+2but can this crisis run crysis?
- synik, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1Makes sense, they invite lots of business leaders... so if you want to get invited there, just set up a large corporation. Simple.
- qwikk, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1I'm going to guess that subverting those below you is also a requisite.
- mahadiga, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1Buy Low. Sell High.
- Bertram23, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1I disagree, his best adage is:
"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."
Its not as topical but on the whole its a better guideline . Interesting that both of them have the same basic structure though. - dekadent30, on 01/29/2009, -0/+0how to earn money for uploading files?
http://earnforuploading.blogspot.com
20$ for 1000 downloads - UselessTrivia, on 10/23/2008, -0/+0The grammar of that title broke my brain the first 5 times I read it. I had to watch the video before I realized they meant "Illegal Immigrant hires wallstreet execs"
Funny as hell, though. - ralphthemagi, on 10/23/2008, -0/+0Why? With more and more people using ad-blocking technologies (both Opera and Mozilla's Camino now have ad-blocking built into the applications by default), and most companies not even bothering to run proper analysis in order to determine the true impact on ROI, online advertising may not be the infinite panacea people thought it was. Some people are actually talking about the total collapse of display advertising (I can't say I agree with them either).
The advantage that Google has over traditional advertising is that you only have to pay for ads that perform (to some extent). But advertising isn't all about performance, especially in a world where more and more companies are moving away from selling consumer products and into selling branded experiences and lifestyle products.
The reason for the fall in Google's stock is that Google is actually highly speculative. They've got a ton of cash, great management, great products, and up until now, great revenues and profits to back it all up. But there's no reason to believe, with any level of certainty, that online ads will continue to out perform all other forms of advertising. This trend may continue, it may not. The true value in Google will come from their ability to adapt in the event that display advertising does fall off, and to be honest I'm not quite convinced that Google is ready to handle that. - bankmega, on 10/24/2008, -0/+0i think it's could't a big influence for google company, because google keep the best no 1 internet business company which needed every people in the world to promote their product.Google will survive....
- UselessTrivia, on 10/23/2008, -0/+0Nice quote. Warren is very pithy like that.
- PixelEater, on 10/23/2008, -1/+1Too soon, jr.
- collution, on 10/24/2008, -1/+1"but when low-budget startups start losing funding,"..Google will buy them if it wants them. Their cheaper now, why wait until the industry builds a big bubble again and prices are inflated? I still don't think we've seen a the 2.0 bubble bust yet, it may not be coming for a while since the financial crisis.
- murrdpirate, on 10/23/2008, -1/+1Google is extremely overvalued. I think they're a great company, but the public is basically in love with them and there has been way too much demand for their stock. At it's peak, their price to earning ratio was nearly 50. Of course, Google is going to continue to grow and do great things so you have to factor in some increased earnings in the future, but so far the hype has been a lot bigger than the profit.
- DanBoodro, on 10/23/2008, -1/+1wtf is up with the oversized ads?
- sofakinghot, on 10/23/2008, -1/+0Illegal gives Ceo's jobs
http://chappyreport.blogspot.com/2008/10/illegal-h ... - inactive, on 10/23/2008, -3/+2You didn't really. You just hoped you were being wacky and original, but when in fact 10000 people thought of posting exactly the same comment
- acaloiar, on 10/23/2008, -2/+1Maybe Google isn't feeling it yet, and yes google will most likely come out on top, but when low-budget startups start losing funding, whether it be venture capital or business loans, the big G will certainly feel the heat. Most businesses right now are still skimming by on the capital they secured before the credit market bottomed out.
- StandardsDT, on 10/23/2008, -7/+5Was it just me or did anyone else read it as "What Google Gains From Crisis" at first?
- bsizzle, on 10/23/2008, -3/+0You are comparing google to ask.com? That's like comparing google to askjeeves....
I believe Schmidt is a genius and can carry the Goog from any recession, but naturally it will need to adapt to the market. - inactive, on 10/23/2008, -3/+0Damn. Comments like this are more annoying than 'i thought it was an article from the onion'
- ymrico, on 10/23/2008, -3/+0woow!
- inactive, on 10/23/2008, -6/+2google is done. ask.com and others are rising quickly and soon google will have
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