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- Viper007Bond, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Yeah, I mean Google prefers nice, clean GUIs and well.. let's just say that MySpace looks like it was coded by a 12 year old.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28Simple. Would you want to hear about "children being stalked, raped and killed by a 40 year old man they met on GoogleSpace" every 45 minutes on newscasts for months on end?
- zeldafan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20I think that google just didn't want to deal with it. Not only that, but would you really want your name on myspace? Not I (of couse, that's ignoring the money aspect, but money is not something google is worried about.)
- igyigyigy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16@Viper007Bond
it *IS* coded by a series of 12 year olds. - siggyfawn, on 10/12/2007, -11/+27Since MySpace is used by 30% of america, 5th biggest site on the net, recently sold for 100s of millions, that proves that HTML/CSS/LOOKS/STANDARDs do not matter. At all. It matters to you. Good for you.
But I doubt the "amateur html markup'er" cares, seeing as he's rolling around in a bed of 100 dollar bills with 3 blondes dancing around his house naked. It's a wonder he can sleep knowing myspace is an html mess. - bariswheel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Myspace is the epitome of what's inherently just BAD code on the internet right now. No respect for standards, absolutely terrible code conventions, etc. etc.. the site was thrown together by an amateur html markup'er.
It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
And hence we have a new verb:
don't get netscaped, *drum roll*
and don't let your ideas get 'myspace'd' - oblongmouth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Myspace = fisherprice myfirstwebpage.
Its for the kids, man. - GeniusCube, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Google = Simple Website Gurus
Average Myspace Profile = PAIN! - JonathanHarford, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I would have assumed it was part of the whole "don't be evil" thing.
- netburnr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9So we are just supposed to 'trust' the person who wrote this article?
Pffft.....
//wonders how this crap hit the first page - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8MySpace == the latest evolution of the Fischer-Price MyFirstWebPage
The previous versions are Geocities and AOL Homepages. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Google: "Internet, serious business!"
MySpace: "OMG!!!11!PONIES!!!11!" - tackle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7wait.. Web 2.0 Founder???
let me guess... the reason this story hit first page is that it had "Web 2.0" in it.
You gotta be kidding me... - mt066, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yeah look at the title. I thought there would be something concrete here, but it's just some guy's (fairly baseless) theory.
- Roundtower2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6very weak story tbh
- noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Call me a sceptic, but wasn't the "MySpace is used by 30% of america" somewhat dubious to start off with?
- weaksnyc, on 08/14/2009, -0/+6"I'm sorry, you're hot and all, but your page just doesn't comply to standards... "
One of these days tech people will crawl out from under their rock and realize the average user doesn't give a damn about standards, what browser they are using, etc.
Oh, and 30% probably isn't too far off, if you count all the users who yell about how much they "fcking HATE" myspace while they are looking at somoene else's myspace page, wishing they weren't too antisocial to start one of their own. - umedone, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7MySpace is just too US-centric investment for a global company like Google. I think they think bigger than the kiddies in the US.
- jameshales, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6...because lots of people already go to MySpace despite how lousy it is, and buying it means buying its massive userbase too.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5with constant news about myspace being a pediphiles playground, i think this would violate their "dont be evil" policy.
- Suplyndmnd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Who would buy a company that's armpit deep in lawsuits with plenty more to come? Myspace is an investment going on the down side of a very steep mountain very soon. Who would want to buy their problems?
- Koptor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6The abuse of HTML and CSS is retarded on MySpace...
ZOMG I HAVE SEMI-TRANSPARENT BOXES WITH BIG FLASHING LIGHTS AS MY BACKGROUND LOLOLOLOL.
But, as has already been said, 12 year olds like that kind of thing.. - ejm508, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Can there ever be an objective (or at the very least, on topic) discussion of MySpace?
Like in this discussion, we're talking about MySpace's business aspects, yet tons of people are still like "oh, and by the way MySpace is teh suck!!!111oneone"
Yes, we know that MySpace is ***** coded and populated by attention-whore teenagers, you don't need to say it whenever you see the name. - deckardrun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3LoL. I was GOING to LEAVE a comment ABOUT this TOO! omG.
- J3bu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Why would you want to pay top dollar for a site which is poorly coded and poorly designed? If they really wanted a myspace.com style site, they would code it themselves....competantly.....and not in coldfusion
- cooppw02, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Man, what an awful headline. What a difference proper punctuation makes:
"The REAL reason Google did NOT buy MySpace: AdSense, says Web 2.0 Founder" - arizonagroove, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6THAT is some NICE use of captitals YOU'VE got there.
- ThePDW, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Please don't use caps-locked words in the text for your digg posting. It hurts my head at this hour of the morning.
- FrickD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Rupert Murdoch apparently.
- quine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Bad code on what side? If everyone remembers correctly: MySpace rose out of Friendster's ashes because they couldn't scale. Myspace could; granted they had some bumps along the way, but considering their volume of traffic they did pretty good... for 'cowboy coders' - but thats another story.
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4" If they really wanted a myspace.com style site, they would code it themselves....competantly.....and not in coldfusion"
They did, it's called Okurt - bozer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Again, the problem is finding people to advertise with myspace. 99 percent of the content on Myspace is stolen copyrighted material. Google was smart to avoid myspace.
- eyevariety, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Myspace generates 400 million in revenue a year for google. Now they are auctioning off the rights to their search. Google could have bought Myspace for 290 million- looks like a costly mistake. John Batelle says they would have become a "content creation/publishing business"... uhhh really? Where is Fox producing content for myspace. If this is true then why did they pursue Orkut?
http://gigaom.com/2006/06/27/google-and-myspace-woulda-coulda-shoulda/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Uh no. MySpace is most definitely global. Damn near all of Europe is using it too, as well as Australia and parts of South America and Asia.
- smith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@siggyfawn
30% of Americans have no taste for design as well, 70% of all people know that. - aliengoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Article makes sense. Same thing happened when Pepsi bought Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut. All the other fast food places switched to Coke. Why would they fund the competition.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/the-myspace-problem
- vhold, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't think you can call it a 'leak' when it was just some anonymous person's theory.
- glumbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think the idea behind this article is basically false. google has already gotten itself into the content business (if you can call it that since its the users who make content, not them) using that page creator tool and most notably blogger (which does not seem to create a conflict of interest when they started allowing you to automatically embed adsense into it).
- poipoipoi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The REAL reason WAS because PEOPLE typed HALF their words in ALL CAPS!
- moted, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I don't know what you are talking about, I've never even seen the myspace main page.
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/0/03/Unexpectederror.jpg - dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I just figured that most myspace pages were way too ugly for google to ever want to be associated with them.
- nilobject, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3All I can picture is some 12 year-old spacking out while he's typing that. Can you imagine how he talks?
"HEY guys. HOW ARE you todAY? *twitch twitch*" - quine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually - myspace runs off of .NET
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/03/25/441074.aspx - unangst, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3That and the fact that MySpace has more visual distractions than anyone would ever want to manage. Let alone Google's staff.
- weaksnyc, on 08/14/2009, -1/+2This was definately a reply to bariswheel's post and the replies to him at the top, not sure why it ended up as a new post...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Because that poorly coded website has 60+ million accounts registered. The value in Myspace is the user base and brand. The codebase and UI mean nothing. Google could rework the backend and frontend of myspace in 2 weeks.
- cyclotron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1WHY was THAT?
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The blogger basically says what I've been saying for awhile, wonder if he read my posts here?
Google doesnt seem concerned right now about having their hands in every cookie jar. Check out all their other publisher sites. I think that may change because sooner rather than later publishers will wise up to Google's conflicts of interest and go to competitors rather than risk giving _their_ competitor all their clicks, impressions and revenue. I mean we just had a nice discussion about google competing with Digg, yet Digg displays ad sense ads? My only explanation is the Digg founders don't care about their long term future, they want a buyout, then if google competes with Digg, who cares, they have their ski boats. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How come this logic doesn't apply to all of the new google services?
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