Day 1 Internet Invented Day 2 PPC Invented Day 3 Spam Day 4? PPC Removed Day 5? Spam sites cost money, spam removed To think google or anyone else can remove spam without removing the cause of spam is foolish. Google has made billions on spam and will continue, it's there cash crop... Maybe that is why google exec's are selling more stock then the enron exec's, maybe no more cash crop? Keep your eyes open for these small se upstarts that try to solve the spam problem, the one who does will be worth more than google in a few years. If you have google stock I suggest following the company leaders and leave while it's still worth money.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=GOOG 7 million shares sold by insiders, 0 bought. That's not that surprising though - google is at a high point - why would you buy high? That 7 mil is only about 8% of all insider shares. Not that much, and they're planned sales
Insiders have SOOO many shares worth SOOOO much money it isnt even funny. The first year of the iraq war could be funded with just insider sales beleive it or not.
Because SEC regulations require full disclosure of the sale of stock in a public corporation... Among other thigns.
While I agree that it will be impossible to eliminate spam sites as long as PPC models exist, Google could go a long way towards reducing the problem by clamping down harder on MFA scraper sites that use AdSense. While this might hurt short term profits, it would probably help ensure better long term revenues by reducing the number of bottom feeders that taint the entire advertising model.
Interesting.. Just watched Enron: Smartest Guys or whatever that documentary was..pretty shitty stuff they did. But it was an interesting film/documentation.
Come on - anytime you put more than two people together in a company there is potential for evil - no matter how much free love and etc and so on there is. Just ask the Chinese users of Google.
Google's issue like any hot stock is that earnings can't grow at a high rate forever. Eventually it's price earnings ratio (at 55 now) will settle in between 20 and 35 and they will have to increase earnings to increase price. If I was an exec holding shares in the company while it's at it's likely highest P/E, I'd sell some now and when the market settles down, I'd buy back in or excercise some options.
I think there is an AOL indicator here also. Think about when AOL was at the top of its game (or perhaps right about when they started to turn down) - what were they best know for? Those dang AOL CDs (or floppies) were everywhere! Now, Google has AdSense. AdSense is everywhere (possibly the cause of most of the SE SPAM also) - it has saturated the market. I think AdSense may be the AOL CD of this decade.
AOL was kinda limited to the Internet for Dummies crowd. Google is an advertising company that is branching out from the internet, to print, radio, and TV. Some day we will be watching the Google Super Bowl or Google FA Cup or Google Tour de France. There's lots of advertising dollars that aren't in the Adsense realm at the moment.
LOL a few years back when i was selling software, every order was shipped with one of those cds. We had thousands in the warehouse.
The answer is 18 months ago when the company executives started dumping stock as fast as they could without getting arrested for insider trading. God I would feel so stupid if I owned Google stock right now.
Actually, it is the norm for insiders to sell a good deal of stock after the freeze period. It happens after every IPO. I don't see why Google is singled out as it would be a lot more suspicious if they held on to all of it and even more if they started buying.
anyone who doesnt like MFA sites need not look further then our own backyard to complain http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=27