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Google Buying Everything

Started by webomatica · 3 months ago

Hmmm. So Google might buy Feedburner. I enjoy using Feedburner; I've had no problems so far. It makes some sense that perhaps Google would like to help bloggers monetize their feeds with Google Adsense. ... Continue reading »

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  • Dan Schawbel

    1 year ago

    with their billion dollars of revenue, they can afford to purchase all of these "assets". For their business it is worthwhile to invest in web 2.0 techonology that can further promote their products.
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  • Sam

    1 year ago

    I think it's funny that Google is now the all powerful internet dictator...or at least is hoping to be. Interesting that "look up" is now synonymous with Google...
    Cringley might be a little out there in his comparison to Reagan and the Cold War, but I suppose there's so much action from Google right now that's it's hard to ignore.
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  • webomatica

    1 year ago

    Dan their billions in revenue seem were partly used to buy DoubleClick just to keep it out Microsoft's hands. That's definitely a powerful statement.

    Sam, yeah, when a company becomes a verb that's mindshare for sure! I think YouTube is nearly to the point. Or at least, sometimes when I want to look for some video, my first thought is "check out YouTube!" and the second thought is to Google it. And they're both the same company...
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  • MG Siegler

    1 year ago

    I too compared this to the Cold War in passing last week:

    "In the post-Cold War world who says there isn't an arms race anymore?..."

    http://www.parislemon.com/2007/05/microsoft-goe...

    Another reader? :)
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  • webomatica

    1 year ago

    Maybe Paris Lemon will be Google's next acquisition target...
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  • MG Siegler

    1 year ago

    One can only dream...
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  • Louis Gray

    1 year ago

    I'm not getting that fuzzy feeling I used to get when I saw Google would win a battle over Microsoft/AOL/Yahoo! etc. Feedburner is cool partly BECAUSE they are independent. gBurner doesn't have that ring to it.
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