There are no checks and balances in place for google, the only real policing for them is when something is brought to the courts. They are facing many class actions from adwords and clickfraud. If Enron taught us anything, do not let these companies self govern, they will do what is the best for themselves. Does anyone know the extent of clickfraud? NO, because only google governs itself. It is a ticking time bomb just like enron. There is major $$$ incentives for google to vear into Enron shadows and it is easy for them to do it with no one watching over them. Selling of stocks is fine, it was setup for a while, but when no execs purchase stock in 18 months is shows a strong lack of faith in there own company and it's future. Another grey area is google black-hatting other Search Engines with spammy pages that they themselves wont keep in there index. Having only 1 revenue stream will kill them soon, with all of these problems and no 3rd partys being able to keep them in check. http://blogation.blogspot.com/2006/01/google-and-enron-similarities.html http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=6680&pagtype=samechan
And google is now in bed with myspace The recently announced multi-year deal will see Google exclusively provide search results and contextual ads across MySpace in exchange for $900 million in guaranteed payments to the Fox Interactive Media Network (MySpace's parent company). Guess Fox will make their almost 600 million back and then some.... Google sucks... they should stick to what they started with.
I second that. And who knows what that would do to the value of both adword clicks and myspace user experience (which sucks already). Probably be a lot of click fraud that's "not really happening".
You guys are missing the point. MySpace had developed their own search engine. This deal destroys that engine, and any chance of google loosing their market share. I made a post about MySpace search, it was actually a good engine. Guess Google got scared and decided to pay them to shut it down.