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- DeskFlyer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+49Mercury, Venus, Google, Mars, etc....
- vanbacon, on 10/12/2007, -7/+50If Murdoch wins we all lose.
- PATSCRU, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27please for the love of all that is holy in this world let google outbid murdoch.
- woxidu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Waggle
- bmson, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23@HUKI365
We are talking about Murdoch. He's the Australian version of Texan - niczar, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23Google is not my friend, but NewsCorp(se) has proven to be my enemy. And yours, too. Unless you are part of the 0.001% top of the world population, of course.
- fkr3, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23What difference does it make if one corporation is controlling the flow of information over another?
Google's not your friend and they're not some knight in shining armour defending your rights. - thefirelane, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16>I'm 16 and ignorant, Dow Jones is that thing you always hear mentioned at 5 ("and the Dow Jones closed at 56 dollars up 15 cetns...").
Dow Jones owns the Wall Street Journal, in which Google could sell ads.
If this made WSJ.com free, that would be great! - AstroMech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Google and Walmart are going to own everything.
/GoogleMart? - tical2756, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Lemons, that's funny
- jeffguillaume, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16For those asking what the benefit of owning Dow Jones & Co would be:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones
They own and operate the Wall Street Journal and many other entities:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Dow_Jones
Personally, I think it would be Orwellian if Murdoch got control, the homophobic right-wing nut job. Oops, did I say that out loud? - Intrepion, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I hope they buy a grocery chain... I'll finally be able to turn in my Google Gulp Cap! mmm, Glutamate Grape!
- MrSpontaneous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9If you controlled the paper read by all the financial bigshots (and were able to subtly influence some stories) you'd be pretty damn excited, too.
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -10/+19Google is a lot more righteous than News Corp. The very name of "News Corp" implies a monopoly.
- tim507, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Yea..once Google owns 51% of earth,..earth should be known as Google from then on! w00t!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This is so lame. The one thing everyone is missing is that Dow Jones is controlled by one family and they didn't put DJ up for sale. Murdoch made an offer and hasn't heard anything back from the family.
- Neticule, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I also want to know, what exactly do you obtain by "buying" the dow jones? I ignorant about all things stock market...
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11exactly why would Google want to own Dow Jones?
I'm 16 and ignorant, Dow Jones is that thing you always hear mentioned at 5 ("and the Dow Jones closed at 56 dollars up 15 cetns..."). - niczar, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13NewsCorps is evil. Its management is evil. Its track record is full of evil deeds.
Google isn't known for helping subvert democracy. NewsCorp is.
Google hasn't actively promoted blatant lies to promote its agenda. NewsCorps is.
Google was founded and is headed by people who at least seem smart, nice and sensible. It could be all a façade, of course ... as opposed to NewsCorp, whom we /know/ is headed by an evil, murderous and greedy son of a bitch. - bobothn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@kibbled
I have realized a long time ago the reason google has started doing a lot of things isn't so that they can succeed it is so they can force others to loose. i mean 1-800-GOOG411 why would they be doing that if it wasn't for at&t and the hole net neutrality thing.
In reality though google's mission is to organize the worlds data (and put ads in it to make money) this is just another data feed for them to organize and stick ad's in. - dn11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Google just buy the universe and get it over with
On another note - Dow Jones and WSJ doesn't really seem like a good "fit" for Google and its culture. But hey, they bought Doubleclick - so who knows what Google is thinking these days.
Honestly, Google scares the ***** out of me. Not because of what they are today (I know they are all wise and benevolent overlords these days) but because of what they could become. What's the saying "absolute power corrupts absolutely"? - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Digg the lies.
- bobothn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3next step is for google to buy news corp. then GE.
- niczar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Murdoch owning WSJ would be a disaster.
To understand the value of it, consider this: it's the most referred to journalistic source by Noam Chomsky. Their opinion page is mostly odious, but their journalistic integrity & quality is otherwise beyond that of all of mainstream media, including the various Times, Posts etc. - dn11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Google is the what's to become the real world example of the Umbrella Corporation."
Yes, somehow I think a lot of geeks have been fantasizing that Google is something more like "The Foundation" (http://tinyurl.com/2k93ce) - since Larry and Sergy were both PhD candidates and seemed to be creating Google out of some philanthropic drive to free all knowledge, but what Google is becoming is quite obvious - a mega conglomerate that will control all the major streams of information while holding a massive and valuable database of user information that will eventually include every consumer on earth - the results can't possibly be as agenda free as everyone hoped. - Dudibob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4In case you didn't know, Google do a bit more than Adwords, they do print too...
- mad05963, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ten Reasons why Google is better than News Corp:
1) Google's business model is about information sharing.
2) News Corps business model is about filtering information.
3) Google's revenues come from discrete advertising targeted to interested buyers (see Adwords)
4) News Corps revenues come from advertising by appealing to the least common denominator
5) Google supports democratic society by providing free tools for people to communicate and share (See Google Labs)
6) News Corps degrades democratic society by trying to define parameters of thought.(See Fox News)
7) Google is not perfect but they have never misled me as a consumer
8) News Corp presents itself as fair & balanced, and everyone knows that is not true.
9) Google is us, all of us who support it clicking on things, by searching, by providing content.
10) News Corp is them, all of them who want to tell us what to think, how to act, and want to pass judgment on us. - LoneCactus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1He who controls the information controls EVERYTHING
- crpietschmann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Honestly, Google scares the ***** out of me. Not because of what they are today (I know they are all wise and benevolent overlords these days) but because of what they could become. What's the saying "absolute power corrupts absolutely"?"
Exactly. Google is the what's to become the real world example of the Umbrella Corporation. I've been saying this for two years and they keep growing, however I am still waiting to see Google Toothpaste at the store. - samk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Google would probably be most interested in the information services, such as Factiva.
I don't think Google would want the Wall Street Journal, anymore than they'd want any other content producer or media outlet like NBC, Reuters, or Time Warner. - niczar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I was referring to the WSJ's qualities, not NewsCorps's
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Guys checkout how google might look tomorrow - http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_s_New_Look_Pic
- theGreg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Man, who knew high-level Wall Street finance could be so damned exciting.
- HUKI365, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3RTFA
- scbysnx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1yep... one more step toward googlezon.. ofcourse newscorp already IS googlezon kinda
- dn11, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1actually wal-mart doesn't own anything except wal-mart and sam's club and some international subsidiaries (as far as I know) - of course since wal-mart intends to be the only retailer in the world, that is saying a lot.
- pailsOfGrease, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Day-trader puff-piece. Bancrofts turned the deal down, now speculators want to stir up the sheep.
- Egoist, on 10/12/2007, -11/+11News Corp is no more "evil" than Google. They are both corporations that aim to raise share prices through revenues and aquisitions. To that effect, they offer products and services that appeal to the general public. It's really that simple.
Not that I expect any of you to understand this. Digg is full of over-emotional 13 year olds who spent two days posting a hex code that they don't what it means or how to use it. A mindless rebellion just to feel like they were "sticking it to the man." Commence digging me down, but you know I'm right. - Niteryder, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Rupert Murdoch's news, Fox news sucks. I hope to god Google does buy it and
keep the Wall Street Journal an American news institution. - crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4"Google, Google, Google, Google, Goog..."
fixed that for ya. - kibbled, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Woxidu
Nice one....
Fox wants to buy the WSJ for their own business network to go up against CNBC. Why would Google want the WSJ?
It is madness, - ColonelJessup, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Goomart
Waloogle
Gowaloglwanawhbrgaiosdfhweruopf - theWaterboy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1even Fox news?
- beckerist, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Galoomle?
- BeefBaron, on 10/12/2007, -10/+6He ought to be disowned from being "Australian" seing how his News Corp portrays things...
- Nogger, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2A bunch of out of the arse speculation to hype up the thing by the current stock owners, if you read the article. Google. Yeah, right. Like they have any interest in running a newspaper publisher. Next someone will be fantasizing about Google buying some grocery chain.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2Bury the truth.
- HUKI365, on 10/12/2007, -18/+6I wouldn't mind an "Australia" running things. Better than a Texan.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -24/+5who the frack are we? You embecile? Stop jumping on bandwagons and think for yourself. This goes for the rest of you lemons.
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