Google going public...bad or good? - Democratic Underground

kerrywins

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Mon Jul-26-04 06:10 PM
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Google going public...bad or good?

Personally, I think this is the begining of the end for google. I think the quality of their services they provide now will slowly decrease.
Corps always let greed get in their way of their better judgement.
I'm gonna miss you google.
Believe me, I hope I am so wrong.

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kerrywins

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Mon Jul-26-04 06:17 PM
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1. bad

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lapfog_1

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Mon Jul-26-04 06:23 PM
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2. I disagree

as a search engine, they will be co-opted by bigger players within
just a year or so. So they have to expand into new products and
services, doing that on revenue alone is almost impossible for
a mid sized corporation like Google. So they have to raise
capital to do new things (and acquire other companies)... and
floating an IPO is the traditional way to do it.

If they don't, they will simply turn into Ask Jeeves or
Altavista.

If they do, they can become another Yahoo or bigger.

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kerrywins

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Mon Jul-26-04 06:26 PM
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3. I hope so

it just seems like...once they do this...then eventually...cool or maybe even existing services will start being "supscription only"...
or they'll do something like limit the amount of queries per day or month for an ip....
its just, right now...gooogle is fresh...and they are probably driven by great ideas and results...and it seems like corps are driven by one very imporant green thing...

money

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cprise

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Mon Jul-26-04 06:39 PM
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5. What are you talking about

Co-opted by bigger players?

And isn't Yahoo a failed search engine?

Lastly, aren't you getting "good for us" mixed up with "good for Google"?

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mtnester

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Mon Jul-26-04 06:26 PM
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4. Bad

I love their current fomat and have for years. Uncluttered, clean, gets what I need without having to scroll all over the place looking for the results.

Public = slew of advertising cluttering up the page

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cprise

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Mon Jul-26-04 06:44 PM
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6. Worse than that

There will be more than just clutter. We can also expect IT megalomania as they try to get their special client software installed on everyone's system, or co-opt some aspect of the Internet the way MS has. They will be selling your private information to the highest bidder.

Just give them one or two CEO changes and the pattern will emerge.

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unblock

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Tue Jul-27-04 08:36 PM
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7. fairly irrelevant -- they're only offering up, what, 9% of the company?

Edited on Tue Jul-27-04 08:36 PM by unblock

if they're only opening up 9% to the masses, how is this so much worse than having aol and yahoo as partners?

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