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How Big Is Google? Heres Another Measure
bits.blogs.nytimes.com — Google earned $803 million, about £407 million, in the United Kingdom in the first quarter. If you assume that rate won’t grow, that makes £1.6 billion for the year. And since Google’s British earnings are up 40 percent from a year ago, it is a safe bet it will grow.
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- Marijuana, on 04/21/2008, -4/+25Google is the big brother we all expected but never expected.
- rpgmaker, on 04/21/2008, -4/+1Google is the big brother that looks after us.. at least for now anyways.
- Shadowgamers, on 04/21/2008, -2/+13Time to buy some stocks before it's too expensive...
- Neticule, on 04/21/2008, -1/+2Its not already? I could maybe afford one if I saved up... lol.
- Shadowgamers, on 04/21/2008, -1/+3Take out 20 credit cards with a few thousand G's credit each and then pray to god they don't find where you live
- Genma, on 04/21/2008, -1/+4haha... "too expensive" being a relative term of course, I think that ship has sailed for most of us long ago.
aug. '04:
ipo: $85
cap: $23bn
today:
price: $535
cap: $169bn- Shadowgamers, on 04/21/2008, -3/+2I'm sure killing your wife and claiming life insurance won't raise any eyebrows... :v
- pw378, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1soon:
price: $985
cap: $311bn
and a bit later:
price: $1250
cap: $394bn
Yup. Too late. :)
- Timdegreat, on 04/21/2008, -1/+1To late.
- Shadowgamers, on 04/21/2008, -2/+2If you swim fast enough you can catch up to the ship
- xenxes, on 04/21/2008, -1/+3Or drown trying :(
I love metaphors.- Shadowgamers, on 04/21/2008, -1/+2Hope you've brought your life-savers :V
Jesus christ this metaphor just keeps going and going...
- Shadowgamers, on 04/21/2008, -1/+2Hope you've brought your life-savers :V
- xienze, on 04/21/2008, -1/+2I'm sure someone said that when it hit $700-ish... right before the stock shed 40% of its value.
- Neticule, on 04/21/2008, -1/+2Its not already? I could maybe afford one if I saved up... lol.
- chazza125, on 04/21/2008, -0/+2How big is a piece of pie?
- breakaway, on 04/21/2008, -1/+5|-------------|
- Giga, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1(Not to scale)
- meatmcguffin, on 04/21/2008, -1/+7Twice as large as half its size
- Shadowgamers, on 04/21/2008, -3/+63.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209 7494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651 3282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102 7019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461 2847564823378678316527120190914564856692346034861045432 6648213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920 9628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841 4695194151160943305727036575959195309218611738193261179 3105118548074462379962749567351885752724891227938183011 9491298336733624406566430860213949463952247371907021798 6094370277053921717629317675238467481846766940513200056 8127145263560827785771342757789609173637178721468440901 2249534301465495853710507922796892589235420199561121290 2196086403441815981362977477130996051870721134999999837 297804995105973173281609631859502445945534690
- pw378, on 04/21/2008, -1/+1Google isn't fighting companies for a piece of the advertising pie... Google has actually made a larger pie, so everyone makes more money. Most people miss that fact.
- Psych77, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1Depends what size you want.
- breakaway, on 04/21/2008, -1/+5|-------------|
- Neticule, on 04/21/2008, -1/+2Wow! And that is just from one country. I don't think they can be stopped any time soon, and I dont yet know whether that is a good, or a bad thing... I have not decided yet :oP
- rpgmaker, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1I just know that the Minority Report reality will catch us up drinking the Google kool-aid.
- Charlatan22, on 04/21/2008, -2/+8Interesting, I never knew google was a powerful company
- jackflap, on 04/21/2008, -1/+3Yeah, google may be making money, but I'm finding that there's a concept of 'old money' and 'new money', and it's the 'old money' players which I think may have more power, despite not making as much money. These are the people who have been in corporate, powerful positions generationally. Money and businesses have gone down from parents to children for many generations, and their money is very tied into political power.
Just look at George Bush, or Rupert Murdoch, it's much more difficult to stop these people from getting what they want than it is for, say Richard Branson, or even Google I think.
- jackflap, on 04/21/2008, -1/+3Yeah, google may be making money, but I'm finding that there's a concept of 'old money' and 'new money', and it's the 'old money' players which I think may have more power, despite not making as much money. These are the people who have been in corporate, powerful positions generationally. Money and businesses have gone down from parents to children for many generations, and their money is very tied into political power.
- HenryBored, on 04/21/2008, -5/+3house of cards.
- Neticule, on 04/21/2008, -0/+5but istead its built with money, and glue.
- Shadowgamers, on 04/21/2008, -0/+6And Duct Tape. The essential tool for builders the world over
- Neticule, on 04/21/2008, -0/+5but istead its built with money, and glue.
- poidh, on 04/21/2008, -3/+3I've recently started using the paid email serviced from them for a couple of domains and it's going well (works out cheaper than the Microsoft Exchange Server and more versatile). Good luck to them.
- Psych77, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1Except they probably scan and store every mail, looking for more opportunites to "offer services".
- skelator99, on 04/21/2008, -7/+0This is Google's actual size http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
- 4LeggedtriPod, on 04/21/2008, -0/+2Try a different URL next time. Everyone knows that one by now.
- Neticule, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1Like I didn't see that coming...
- poidh, on 04/21/2008, -0/+5uuiU = Rick Roll I believe.
- Morality, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1tinyurl ftw
- greatgatsbyII, on 04/21/2008, -1/+2It's crazy to think about how many free services they offer and how they can still make money is beyond me. That a lot of ad money.
- gubatron2, on 04/21/2008, -2/+2they drive the internet dude, they've created the biggest marketing ecosystem in the web. I bet they also make tons on corporate services, starting from those little custom search boxes, to online services like email. Many companies are fed up with the headaches of dealing with mail servers and spam, they turn up to google (big companies) to have it dealt with.
Also be sure they invest a lot of the money they make on many many other things. They got professionals in every area, how can they not make money.
If you split those earnings to the second its so depressing how hard its to compete against them, they can afford almost anyone to work for them, where most of us are struggling to have people join us in our own projects part time.
- gubatron2, on 04/21/2008, -2/+2they drive the internet dude, they've created the biggest marketing ecosystem in the web. I bet they also make tons on corporate services, starting from those little custom search boxes, to online services like email. Many companies are fed up with the headaches of dealing with mail servers and spam, they turn up to google (big companies) to have it dealt with.
- Efflux, on 04/21/2008, -3/+34I for one, welcome our new Google overlords.
- Bmarofsky, on 04/21/2008, -1/+1Be careful what you wish for......or
If it sounds too good to be true......
- Bmarofsky, on 04/21/2008, -1/+1Be careful what you wish for......or
- mikkee07, on 04/21/2008, -0/+3Looks like google won't be very hurt with all this dollar crisis. UK earnings are impressive.
- jamesdew, on 04/21/2008, -1/+0the £ isn't so hot right now either
- SwordFish666, on 04/21/2008, -1/+2Go Google!
- FrancoisLyon, on 04/21/2008, -0/+3Great. If Google is to double in size in the next few years, look for another doubling of Bay Area real estate.
- polishdude06, on 04/21/2008, -3/+11 googol
=10^100 =10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000- polishdude06, on 04/21/2008, -1/+1Dam, it didn't fit. 1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
- poidh, on 04/21/2008, -0/+2Yes, but this is about Google the company not googol the number. But we're all impressed that you know how to write one hundred zeros after each other in a row. Well done.
- h4ppydotcom, on 04/21/2008, -0/+4The punchline you are missing is this:
1 googol = 10^100
1 Google = $10^100
- polishdude06, on 04/21/2008, -1/+1Dam, it didn't fit. 1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
- RFKirb, on 04/21/2008, -2/+14better google than microsoft....
- FDisk, on 04/21/2008, -1/+3Better me than google or microsoft :)
- mithrasinvictus, on 04/21/2008, -1/+3What's your position on privacy and interoperability?
- scamper22, on 04/21/2008, -1/+2really sad thing: better Google than the government.
- fokov, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1When corporations get big, the lines start to blur. Examples: any other industry in existence. Food, Coal, Oil, Energy (other), banking, etc.
- FDisk, on 04/21/2008, -1/+3Better me than google or microsoft :)
- RSTaichi, on 04/21/2008, -1/+2AOL, Netscape, Yahoo... Internet companies are as disposable as pop stars. just more hype and money at stake.
- ogisdan, on 04/21/2008, -2/+16I would kill a hamster to work for Google.
- beefchi, on 04/21/2008, -1/+4i would kill myself to work for google
OH SHI-
- beefchi, on 04/21/2008, -1/+4i would kill myself to work for google
- mj1903, on 04/21/2008, -1/+3The idea that Google must grow because it grew in the past is preposterous. If that was the case then whatever happened to the other 11 companies that were part of the original 12 as part of the Dow Jones Industrial Index?
- YodaJones, on 04/21/2008, -0/+8Imagine Godzilla and King Kong having babies, that's how big Google is.
- mdeppi01, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1Abe Vigoda?
- luckyguy2000, on 04/21/2008, -0/+2wow, ive never googled whether this is bad or not.
- vanden9, on 04/21/2008, -0/+5Here I was expected a picture of how big google is
- drpaidout, on 04/21/2008, -1/+2Oh yeah, of course.. Google's great.. it'll keep growing.. and in 20 years time, it'll be larger than the world economy!
........... - asherchang, on 04/21/2008, -3/+3Remember that they changed their algorithm more than 400 times last year to censor unfavorable search results such as Encyclopedia Dramatica and google bombs. Remember that they own Youtube, which cows over to spurious DMCA takedowns and the Co$. Google's done nothing overtly malicious so far, but it's not too far a leap.
- Duncan3, on 04/21/2008, -0/+0Now if only those ads worked...
- NonLeftistDiggr, on 04/21/2008, -0/+2corporate profit = bad? c'mon where are you folk on this one?
- jefflundberg, on 04/21/2008, -0/+2I love Google, but lets put things into perspective, Google made $4.2 Billion on $16.59 Billion in revenue in 2007, with $17.2 Billion in the bank. That's a lot, right? Microsoft made $14 Billion on $51.1 Billion in revenue in the same period, and has another $40 Billion in the bank. Cisco made $7.3 Billion last year on $34.9 Billion in revenue. So, take Google's profits, multiply it by 3.34, and you have what Microsoft made. Another way to look at it: Google makes 30% of what Microsoft makes.
- drdanb77, on 04/22/2008, -1/+0Like the Energizer Bunny of tech money-makers...a whole lotta development and research going on at Google. And It Pays!
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