http://www.intelligentspeculator.net/investing_commentary/google-chome-os-vs-microsoft-windows/ Free stock picks and stock market commentary. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:17:20 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.intelligentspeculator.net/investing_commentary/google-chome-os-vs-microsoft-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-3423 Intelligent Speculator | An important case for Google’s future (GOOG) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:02:15 +0000 http://www.intelligentspeculator.net/?p=977#comment-3423 [...] “We allow trademarks to be used as keyword triggers in Adwords because users searching on Google benefit from being able to choose from a variety of competing advertisers” said a spokesman of Google. Of course, that defence seems very poor to me as there is no way a company can defend its actions simply by saying it is doing what is best for its users. Can you imagine all those torrent sites and others such as The Pirate Bay trying to defend themselves legally by saying that they are doing it for their users? Seems highly unlikely. Of course, Google will have a lot of other of arguments but I do think that this case should be followed very closely by all Google analysts. Today, the stock barely moved and actually rose 4,01$ to 414.40$ as few analysts give Rosetta Stone much of aa chance to succeed in this case. The story everyone is talking about is really about Google’s upcomming play on operating systems. [...] [...] “We allow trademarks to be used as keyword triggers in Adwords because users searching on Google benefit from being able to choose from a variety of competing advertisers” said a spokesman of Google. Of course, that defence seems very poor to me as there is no way a company can defend its actions simply by saying it is doing what is best for its users. Can you imagine all those torrent sites and others such as The Pirate Bay trying to defend themselves legally by saying that they are doing it for their users? Seems highly unlikely. Of course, Google will have a lot of other of arguments but I do think that this case should be followed very closely by all Google analysts. Today, the stock barely moved and actually rose 4,01$ to 414.40$ as few analysts give Rosetta Stone much of aa chance to succeed in this case. The story everyone is talking about is really about Google’s upcomming play on operating systems. [...]

]]> http://www.intelligentspeculator.net/investing_commentary/google-chome-os-vs-microsoft-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-3421 The Financial Blogger » Blog Archive » Financial Ramblings Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:55:35 +0000 http://www.intelligentspeculator.net/?p=977#comment-3421 [...] Google vs Microsoft; the rise of a new monopoly? [...] [...] Google vs Microsoft; the rise of a new monopoly? [...]

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