Comments on: Google’s new battleground

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Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:01:18 +0000

[...] engine wants to go beyond the center of the Internet experience and become the center of our lives, reports Intelligent Speculator. By doing more personal searches and also creating an advertising hub for merchants, the search [...]

By: IS

IS — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:36:48 +0000

Hahaha…we’ll have to wait and see about that. I love Google’s long term perspectives but with online advertising down 8% this quarter (estimates), it will be a tough one for GOOG…

By: The Financial Blogger

The Financial Blogger — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:07:10 +0000

I knew that I was making a good pick by selecting Google in our stock competition

By: BrianSJ

BrianSJ — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:03:30 +0000

People think of google as a ‘tech’ company. It may be better to think of it as an infrastructure company; it owns vast amounts of fibre and other infrastructure. So it has the roads, sells maps, runs adverts, and runs infrastructure from company to individual desktop or mobile. Yes, to location-based services. Google docs is the start of removing oracle etc etc etc.
They are much bigger now than people understand and the scope for expansion is much bigger than you are indicating.
Disclosure; waiting for the price to drop further.