Google would only buy godaddy so they can shut it down. Notice when they purchased dmoz, it was solely to shut it down. and ensure it goes extinct. Just few years ago they bought DoubleClick for 3.1 Billion thats 3100 millions. that's like 3000 millions . and then 100 more solely to shut it down and ensure it goes extinct. they bought youtube for 1.5billion and then they got behind the microphone and told everyone every investor that youtube's revenues were so lacking any significance that they marked it on their Company Revenue papers as ' no value '... i think they called it " non-monetary value " it's a profit company and they called it "non-monetary-value".. i am guessing it was a true love story that shows up inside wall street numbers just like how some people say "THESE COOKIES WERE BAKED/COOKED WITH LOVE" so you know, they paid 1.5 billion and then they said it brings ' no value ' to the company. ( by the way this is actually logical to those who get the point, google only bought them to stop negative videos being made about google. ).. it's kind of like .. throwing a steak infront of a dog that wants to attack you, kind of a concept. or like in prison, you give a slice of your sandwich to one of the gangsters you want to turn into your company. i think that goes for double click too. and then yeh.. you ensure the dog is eliminated. so no more steaks can be wasted. If you think about it, when they bought doubleclick for 3.1 billion and youtube for 1.5billion. it's almost as if no-body even spoke about the bigger purchase, everyone was talking about how 1.5billion was too much for a youtube that was gonna be around. and $3.1 billion was too little for a company they were simply going to throw into trash. They bought Feedburner for $100million. it's almost as if they do not have anyone who can code anything in google. feedburner is the simplest concept ever, no intelligence required to code it. They purchased On2 solely for the purposes of hiring their employees, nothing more. and to them it was worth $106million. in other words, people are cheaper than pages with some simple codes to google. They purchased AdMob less than a year ago for 3 quarters of a Billion, solely for the purposes of shutting it down. By the way some of these companies they buy, they buy it from bigger parent companies so that the parent company can say nice things about google in the media since most of these transactions are paid with stock options that can not be cashed instantly. It's kind of like you purchasing an american flag so that americans wont drop bombs on your house. or america hiring just 1 middle easterner so that middle easters wont throw shoes at george bush the criminal piece of shiet. They purchased ' Picasa' the price is not known but the terminology is spanish... Usually tho, they just buy small companies that are causing damage to google if they were to not be purchased and eliminated just like dmoz.org as example. it's kind of like permitting the guy overseas come to U.S. where you can make an arrest and then throw him into prison. they permit the company to go into google and be sold to google so google can destroy it. the cost of the company is usually the cost of the plane ticket. paid by google. smart moves dudez, cant relate tho. i am into britney spears songs mostly. If they can not purchase your company, that does not mean they will remove you from their web site search results. infact in WIKIPEDIA.ORG example, google is letting it live inside google search results. but if wikipedia.org were to ever sell advertising, then it would suddenly lose popularity within google. in other words, every coprighted material inside wikipedia.. companies wont sue them because they believe wikipedia is a non-profit orgnization. and google loves them, because it is a nonprofit organization thus copyrighted content can be fed into google where the real money is being made from advertisers. if wikipedia were to ever take a scoop of the profits google makes from wikipedia, then wikipedia would start fading away. in other words, soon as somebody buys wikipedia... to make profits from it, it will be the beginning of it's end. it stays alive only because google is using it as a descreet non-associated content source. but shhhh, it's a double secret. don't tell anyone about this or google will feel lucky about buying you out and making you sign a paper that says you will not speak on the internet about google for the next 20 years. - Sumer Kolcak
If google purchased wikipedia then they would be bombarded with trademark and copyright lawsuits. google is not purchasing wikipedia on purpose so that they can use wikipedia through their search engine. it's a nice trick. humanity is sleeping tho. People just dont get it. - Sumer Kolcak
Well Google has a good record of making acquired company better than before, When they bought out GrandCentral, they released a completely free version of their service for no catch(Google Voice).
Well, i think the best example we can go by at this point to find out how good google is at making companies better is: YouTube Right now, when i go on youtube, its almost soo dull, so ugly, the front page has featured videos made up of clowns and losers, all stupid stuff, nothing interesting, ugliness at it's maximum. its usually homos on the front page. every video you look featured on youtube's front page is a homo with lipstick all over it's face. it's a joke. but i guess it is what makes google money. it somehow translates into money. it's one of those concepts when if google takes over the TV of the internet and makes sure people do not think.. it makes them not think too much about pouring all of their investments into google's stock. when people do not think on this planet google wins. the same way george bush won by ensuring people did not think too much. it's kind of like bank of america makes sure that you do not think too much about what the $35 overdraft fee is about. if you think about it too much then their revenues go down. it's a paris hilton kind of a concept. where intelligence equates to no money. PBS is/was a tv channel that made people think. and as a result they went broke. google's message to humanity is " just be a homo and pour all of your life on google and don't ever use any other web site " When larry page or google founders code, the text is black and the background is white. but google's front page. it's a colorful logo, like a circus made for homos. i just dont get it, is google popular because the word "Google" looks like the word "God" or is it because it looks like the word " Gay " ? what does Gmail even mean? there is an fbi agent that takes my photos and writes bunch of lies on his papers, he is fat ugly chubby and old and shaves only once every 6 days.. he has a gmail account, when i looked into it, it's bunch of lols and crap.. listen, i want to say that perhaps i am just a joker and i know nothing about google but here's a fact. for 8 years between the years of 2001 and 2008.. i drove to google hq and had a burger there. usually in n out burger. being close to the hq gives you ability to hear the noises that are in the air. trust me, i heard things that are beyond what a human can understand. larry page is not your ordinary human, they do "voodoo". to get rich, and their voodoo includes acting on feelings, even if feelings are evil. in other words they feel "lucky" about murdering the planet and being the last ones to enjoy some pleasure on it. you might say there is no such thing. well, take tom cruise for example. he calls himself " the last sammurai " or "the last lizard in the universe". larry page is no different than tom cruise idealogy wise. they all know, in the end universe zeros out to void/nothing. and thus no matter how many people they kill, there wont be such thing as hell for them. you might say delusional sure. there is a reason earth comes up with a plan to find a hot chick for every person out there that is up to no good and wants to do evil. it is hoping to slow their evil down. that's why they say " opposites attract" try being evil for a day, and you'll notice earth is sending hot chicks to your way. try being "super nice" for a day and earth sends fbi towards you. ( evil ones ). it's all about cancelling things out. or fixing things up, or neutralizing the both sides. etc... until it can turn void. ( permanent peace ). it's almost automatic. - Sumer Kolcak
By the way one should ask.. 'HOW DID LARRY PAGE COME UP WITH THE TERM ' DO NO EVIL ' "... what exactly did he experienment with that he understands that "do no evil" line so well? why wont humanity think a little bit just for 1 tiny second. it's simple basic logic. - Sumer Kolcak
But here's the thing. Let's say you are EVIL, and you want to get rich and make Europe jealous. from the standpoint of Europe, you are evil. so what europe will do is, calculate that if europe sends you a hot chick that is your age that is european, you will marry her and as a result you wont be able to run for the presidency in america. thus europe wins, and america wins too. europe and america agree to go forward and do this to stop you from becoming the president because there is somebody else who wants to become the president. it's all mixy like that, it's not really "evil" or "being nice" it's all about interests. and google has interests, thus if a plan out there that causes 1000's to die in middle east, and the plan says.. " it is executable/plotable in a manner that laws can not go against google ".. google will do it because it is in their best company interest. you know the non-complex version of this would be... google knows tomorrow there will be more iraqi and american deaths in middle east, they can put a message on their web site and tell them to "be nice".. but they wont do that, because it is not in their best company interest. but here's another secret, i could be writing all of these things about google on purpose, because i might know i am being investigated by fbi,cia,irs,secret service, google, etc.. and i just want to make them read things so they can infect the entire U.S. government with my imagination and crush google's stock. it might all be just a video game for me. we just don't know who the evil one is. i already told fbi i would like to do 2 years in prison but they just wont let me. it appears they too want google to go down in flames. - Sumer Kolcak
I hope the news is for real... or else it might turn out to be a ploy by the competition to scare off some of its regular customers! Regards, RightMan
You have a point Mohie! Let's take a look at what we will all need to fork out: According to DP, there is about 389,221 regsitered users to this forum. If we could somehow get everyone to join in, each member will need to pay: $2,569.23 According to DP, only 59,240 of the 389,221 are active. If we only look at active users, each member will need to pay: $16,880.48 Well, registering a company would be a nightmare, to start with. But it could be interesting!